How to set a default value for one column in SQL based on another column

Question

I\'m working with an old SQL 2000 database and I don\'t have a whole lot of SQL experience under my belt. When a new row is added to one of my tables I need to assign a defa

Answer 1

If what you are looking for is to define a column definition based on another column you can do something like this:

create table testable 
(
    c1 int, 
    c2 datetime default getdate(), 
    c3 as year(c2)
);

insert into testable (c1) select 1

select * from testable;

Your result set should look like this :

c1 | c2                      | c3
1  | 2013-04-03 17:18:43.897 | 2013

As you can see AS (in the column definition) does the trick ;) Hope it helped.