Christian lives in Guatemala. He has worked with Databases for about 12 years, at the beginning as a software developer and for the last 10 years as DBA. His expertise areas are Database migration, Performance tuning, Security of SQL Server and Designing and Implementing HA and DR environments. He has worked with SQL Server since version 2000. Passionate about SQL Server, Azure and joining to the Online SQL Server community. You can always find him on Twitter (@charaujo).

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What's new in SQL 2017

SQL Server 2017 became General Availability (GA) on 10/2, I've been sharing through the different social media channels the different features and enhancements included in this new version, however...

2017-10-11

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Question of the Day

Adding Defaults

I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code. 

ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE()
GO
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate
GO
What happens when I run these two batches?

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