I use Visual Studio data classes designer to draw the model first and generate the database then. I want a field (boolean in the class, int in the table) to be non-nullable but optional to specify. How do I specify a default value?
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I use Visual Studio data classes designer to draw the model first and generate the database then. I want a field (boolean in the class, int in the table) to be non-nullable but optional to specify. How do I specify a default value?
Click on the field of interest in the dbml and select Properties and toggle Auto Generated Value. This will address the case when the created SQL field has a default value, e.g., “created DATETIME DEFAULT(GETUTCDATE()) NOT NULL”.
You can set the DEFAULT value using ALTER. How to do it graphically though I’m not certain.