Jim is a Cloud Solutions Architect for RDX Technologies in Warrendale, PA, a suburb just outside of Pittsburgh. He enjoys retro video game collecting and watching the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Adding Defaults

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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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