Question

I have an issue.

I have created 2 timestamp fields within a table ‘created’ and ‘last_updated’. Both are timestamps. ‘last_updated’ is set to the last time the user logged in, and ‘created’ is the time of creation on that account.

I am setting both defaults to ‘none’. But, I can see in the list view that ‘created’ has

on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP No  CURRENT_TIMESTAMP   ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

I’ve tried to edit this column on it’s own, and after it saves it still says the same thing.

I don’t want any defaults. How can I change this?

Answer 1

ALTER TABLE `tablename` CHANGE COLUMN `last_updated` 
                                      `last_updated` TIMESTAMP NULL  ;

And the default of a timestamp cannot be a random string value — it has to be a timestamp.