MySQL auto-store datetime for each row

Question

In MySQL, I\'m sick of adding the columns dt_created and dt_modified (which are date time stamps for creation and last modified respectively) to al

Answer 1

Well, you can't have both:

mysql doc:

It is not possible to have the current timestamp be the default value for one column and the auto-update value for another column.

Sad, isn't it?

You could however use null instead of now() following this tip