Questions tagged [default-constraint]

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Command for adding a default constraint

There appears to be at least two ways to add a default constraint using straight T-SQL. Am I correct that the only difference between the two below is that the second method specifically creates a name for the constraint, and the first method has…
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default a column with empty string

Is there a way, via a SQL statement, to ensure a column's default value is an empty string '' instead of NULL?
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How to add a default value to an already existing column?

I have an existing column in my SQL Server database. I have tried about everything I can think of but can not get a default value to be added to the column. What works in every other database is alter table mytable alter column mycolumn set…
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What does the Alter Table syntax look like for adding a DATETIME column?

I can't find what the syntax looks like for adding a DATETIME column to a mysql table when I want to set the default to - example - 2011-01-26 14:30:00 Does anyone know what that syntax looks like? Here's what I've got ADD COLUMN new_date DATETIME…
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How to get EF 6 to handle DEFAULT CONSTRAINT on a database during INSERT

I am new to EF (its my first week), but not new to databases or to programming. Others have asked similar questions, but I don't feel that it has been asked with the right detail or explained quite as it needs to be explained, so here I…
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Why does adding a nullable default constraint to an existing column take so long?

I have an existing table with approximately 400 million rows. That table includes a set of bit columns named IsModified, IsDeleted, and IsExpired. CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ActivityAccumulator]( [ActivityAccumulator_SK] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, …
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EF core ,Create Custom Default Constraint Name

I am using EF core 2.1 and want to create custom default Constraint Name. Currently, its getting create Constraint "DF__StudentBa__Admit__1DB06A4F"
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SqlBulkCopy into table that Default column values fails when source DataTable row has DBNull.Value

Update: Here is my solution I have a table defined as: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[csvrf_References] ( [Ident] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [ReferenceID] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL DEFAULT (newsequentialid()), [Type] [nvarchar](255) NOT NULL, …
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How to set another value on a boolean with defaut value with Entity Framework Core?

I got quite the same problem in this question : How to override SQL Server default value constraint on a boolean when inserting new entity? [closed] Like him, I get the good value of my boolean from the client to the controller, false, but it's set…
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how to remove default constraint from column in Db2

I had a table STUDENT_TB, which had column STUDENT_ID, NAME, AGE. I added a column with a following command :- alter table STUDENT_TB add DOB TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT TIMESTAMP as for the DOB column i didn't wanted it to be null. Now i…
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Pass a NULL value to DateTime Field in LINQ

My database table is like this CREATE TABLE MYBUDGET.tbl_CurrentProperty ( [PropID] INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1), [UpdatedOn] DATETIME NOT NULL, [Amount] MONEY NOT NULL, …
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Getting C# To Insert Defaults Into SQL Server

How can I INSERT values into SQL Server that are stored in a string[] such that some of the values should be disregarded in favor of the values stored in SQL Server as default constraints on the table? What do I need to pass(e.g. NULL or something…
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Orphan constraints in SQL Server database

Running the following query results in all constraints in our client's database. However, several rows in the result set don't seem to have a parent, i.e. parent_object_id = 0 and OBJECT_NAME(parent_object_id) returns NULL. SELECT name, type_desc,…
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Get the value from a default constraint

I need to change a default constraint value from 0 to 1. This is done easy with: ALTER TABLE table DROP CONSTRAINT X ALTER TABLE table ADD CONSTRAINT X default (1) for table.column The problem is that I don't want to drop and create a new…
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Stored procedure with parameter that defaults to default constraint value

I have a Users table that has an ImgPath column. I want that ImgPath column to be not null and default to a specific path. In the table declaration, I have this: [ImgPath] VARCHAR(256) NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_Users_ImgPath] DEFAULT…
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