Hi John,

You can use only constants or system functions in DEFAULTs. A trigger can accomplish what you want. Notice that table has to have a primary key in order to implement trigger.

CREATE TRIGGER trig_test
ON dbo.mytable
FOR INSERT
AS 
BEGIN
        -- id is a PK for mytable
	UPDATE mytable SET field2 = 
		(CASE WHEN inserted.field1 LIKE 'D%' THEN 'M' ELSE 'W' END)
		FROM mytable JOIN inserted 
			ON inserted.id = mytable.id
		WHERE inserted.field2 IS NULL	
END

>I want to create a default value for a column when new records are added but the default value depends on value of another column and I don't know how this can be best done.
>
>For example, if I have a very simple table with just two character columns of FIELD1 & FIELD2, I want the default value of FIELD2 to be:
>
>1) If value of FIELD1='MOMMY' then default for FIELD2='WOMEN'
>2) If vlaue of FIELD2='DADDY' then default for FIELD2='MEN'
>
>How can I go about doing this using either DEFAULT or TRIGGER? TIA.