>>>It's actually an interesting question - we want to use default value if that @Value is NULL. I'll ran a test using DEFAULT keyword - thinking it may be tricky.
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>>I tried it and it gave me an error.
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>You need to use dynamic SQL for this purpose. You can not use DEFAULT directly.
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>create table #test (dateFld datetime default '19000101', charField varchar(20) default 'Test', numField int default 10)
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>declare @dt datetime = null, @ch varchar(20) = null, @nm int =15
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>declare @sql nvarchar(max)
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>set @sql = N'INSERT INTO #Test (dateFld, charField, numField)
>VALUES (' + case when @dt IS NULL then 'DEFAULT' else '@dt' END +
>', ' + case when @ch IS NULL then 'DEFAULT' else '@ch' end +
>', ' + case when @nm is NULL then 'DEFAULT' else '@nm' end + ')'
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>execute sp_executeSQL @sql, N'@dt datetime, @ch varchar(20), @nm int', @dt = @dt,@ch=@ch, @nm=@nm
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>select * from #testCan't you then modify your dynamic Insert to skip the fields if their are null? And skip the value if null in the Values part?
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