SQL SERVER – Adding Column Defaulting to Current Datetime in Table

Presenting a technical session is a greatest experience one can have and I enjoy doing the same. While I write this blog post, I am presenting at Great Indian Developer Summit in India. The event is a grand success and I am having a great time at this event. One of the questions which I often receive is how do one can add the column to existing table which will be auto-populated with the current datetime when the original row is inserted. There is indeed a simple solution to achieve this goal. One has to just create table with default value as a current datetime.

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SQL SERVER – RESEED Identity Column in Database Table – Rest Table Identity Value – SQL in Sixty Seconds #051

This is the 51th episode of SQL in Sixty Seconds Video and we will see in this episode how to RESEED identity of the table column. Identity column is every increasing (or decreasing) value based on the interval specified in its property. In today’s SQL in Sixty Seconds video we…
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