Posted by IchBin on 10/21/05 05:57

laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> I am running MySQL 4. I was curious, how do you make the DATE or
> TIMESTAMP column's default value whatever the time was that the row was
> created. I would prefer not to specify the "NOW()" function in my
> INSERT statement, but rather would like to have that automatically
> happen upon new row creation.
>
> Is it possible?
>
> Thanks, - Dave
>

If the NULL attribute is not specified, setting the column to NULL sets
it to the current timestamp. Note that a TIMESTAMP column which allows
NULL values will not take on the current timestamp unless either its
default value is defined as CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, or either NOW() or
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is inserted into the column. In other words, a
TIMESTAMP column defined as NULL will auto-update only if it is created
using a definition such as the following:

CREATE TABLE t (ts NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);


Look at this link
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/timestamp-4-1.html
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Thanks in Advance...
IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA
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