Question

I am trying to import from an old database into an updated one.

The databases are basically identical except in one of my tables I added a new column that is NOT NULL.

This obviously makes errors when I used the importer to move the rows over. Is there a way that I can define a default for this new NOT NULL field when doing an Import?

Answer 1

Yes you can add a default constraint to the new column. See this post: Alter column, add default constraint

alter table TableName
add constraint df_ConstraintNAme
default > getutcdate() for [Date]