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From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Question about NOT NULL and default values.
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Msg-id 20081016205456.X48826@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Question about NOT NULL and default values.  ("Tim Uckun" <timuckun@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Question about NOT NULL and default values.  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Tim Uckun wrote:

> Is there a way to change this behavior so that an attempt to set the
> column to NULL will result in the default value being put in the
> field?

I don't think so specifically with default, but you could use a before
trigger instead that would put in a value in the new row if NULL was
given.

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