>>It looks like each one of the tables of my SQl Server database has a column timestamp_column of type timestamp. I don't remember adding this column. How could it have gotten there?
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>>Also, the Insert into a table fails pointing that Default should be used when inserting to timestamp_column. How do you do it?
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>>Thank you in advance.
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>>UPDATE: I found that not all tables have this column but a lot of them. Could this column been added by VFP wizard that converted VFP database to SQL Server? Is it then ok to delete this column?
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>Here is a link to the M$ docs :
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa260631(SQL.80).aspx>The timestamp column is updated automatically on insert and update. This data type is usually used to version stamp a record. I am unsure how this collumn got added if you didn't do it.
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>Einar
Correction. The link is not dead but when I simply click on it it forwards me to another link. But if I type the URL manually, I find the article. Thank you.
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