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Shaun McGuile

Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:58 AM

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One dev just asked me

"If you have a table with an autogen id column, and a datetime column which defaults to now() (dev speak for CURRENT_TIMESTAMP :) ) can you just insert rows without adding anything else?"

Hmmm I thought sounds bizzare insert a row without adding any other data................ Crazy

I don't think it would work.... how do you do the insert?

You have to add something to the row to get it to generate an instance of a row and bind it to the table. i.e. a data item into a third column.

(Time to educate with extreme predjudice) :D

--Shaun

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ChrisM@Work

Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:02 AM

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Hi Shaun

Wasn't this a qotd earlier in the year?

INSERT INTO table Default Values

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Shaun McGuile

Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:10 AM

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Can't say I saw that one Chris, but I'll go check it out cheers.

So it is possible Crazy

using

INSERT INTO 'tablename' Default Values

Amazing :D Them devs are not so dumb afterall. :P

--Shaun

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