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How do you set a default value for a MySQL Datetime column?

I have a table with column CreatedDate of data type datetime and i want to be able to set its default value to current DateTime how do i do it?

I tried Now() and CurrentTimestamp but no luck so far!!!

Answer 1

You can only set a static default in the table definition.
So unless you want to call ALTER TABLE every minute….

Use a trigger:

DELIMITER $$

CREATE TRIGGER bu_table1_each BEFORE UPDATE ON table1 FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
  SET new.datefield = NOW();
END $$

DELIMITER ;

See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/triggers.html