Aha. I feel much wiser now, thank you <g>

Nope, no triggers or formulas—I just did the GetDate() thing, though, with no problems. I appreciate it.

BTW, what's all this '@' stuff about, anyway? What does an '@' do? I'm looking at the docs for @local_variable, but it's going way over my head...



>Hi Jeff,
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>You're right, it *is* easy. (bg)
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>I just went into a table with several DateTime columns, and entered
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>getdate()
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>into the Default Value section of the Table Designer for three of them. SQL Server saved the table just fine (albeit placing an extra set of parentheses around what I typed).
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>Could you possibly have a trigger or a formula specified for the column in question?
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>>This is easy in FoxPro, of course, so I'm thinking it must be just as easy in MS-SQL, and that I only need to find out the right syntax.
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>>I've created a DateTime field, and I want it to automatically populate with the current system date & time when a record is added.
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>>Trouble is, whenever I try to enter anything—anything at all—into the Default Value field in Table Designer, I get an error: "Error validating the default for column 'tPaymentReceivedDate'."
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>>What's an overworked genius to do?
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>>TIA,
>>Jeff