even if you have a default constraint in place, if you have a data access layer that explicitly sends NULL to be the column value, then NULL it shall be.
defaults are only used when a value is not provided.
As others have mentioned, more details will get you some better answers, but that was the first thing i thought of when i read "default not working"
Lowell
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