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I am writing a new application and I am in the design phase. A few of the db tables require to have an InsertedDate field which will display when the record was inserted.
I am thinking of setting the Default Value to GetDate()
Is there an advantage to doing this in the application over setting the default value in the database?
I think its better to set the Default Value to GetDate() in SQL Server, rather than in your application. You can use that to get an ordered table based on insertion. It looks like an overhead if you try to set it from the application. Unless you want to specify some particular date with the insert, which I believe kills the purpose of it.