Can I add a not null column without DEFAULT value

Question

Can I add a column which is I specify as NOT NULL,I don\'t want to specify the DEFAULT value but MS-SQL 2005 says:

ALTER TABLE only allows columns to

Answer 1

No - SQL Server quite reasonably rejects this, because it wouldn't know what value existing rows should have

It's easy to create a DEFAULT at the same time, and then immediately drop it.