Is it always good practice to provide default values for integer-like fields? I use linq for database access.
Is it always good practice to provide default values for integer-like fields? I use
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Is it always good practice to provide default values for integer-like fields? I use linq for database access.
I assume you are using linq-to-sql (even though the question is tagged only linq).
I would definitely advice against using default values in the db. The linq-to-sql layer (at least if generated with sqlmetal, I assume it is the same for the designer) will not use the default values from the database, but rather the default value for the C# type – which means
0for numeric types. In that case having default values which are not honored by the code will just cause confusion.