{"id":581,"date":"2013-10-17T10:31:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T17:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sqldbpros.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2014-03-03T13:40:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T20:40:55","slug":"ssdt-default-values-for-smart-defaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/ssdt-default-values-for-smart-defaults\/","title":{"rendered":"SSDT Default Values For Smart Defaults"},"content":{"rendered":"

There's a handy feature in SSDT (SQL Server Development Tools) that will automatically insert a default value into a column when you change it from nullable to NOT NULL. I wasn't able to track down documentation specifying what the default values for the \"smart defaults\" were so I hopped into the SQL DB Pros corporate jet and headed to our top secret North Pole laboratory to see what I could figure out. The results are below.<\/p>\n

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Default Values For SSDT Smart Defaults<\/h1>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
bigint<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
binary<\/td>\n0x00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bit<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
char<\/td>\n\u00a0<empty string><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
date<\/td>\n1900-01-01<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
datetime<\/td>\n1900-01-01 00:00:00.000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
datetime2<\/td>\n1900-01-01 00:00:00.0000000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
datetimeoffset<\/td>\n1900-01-01 00:00:00.0000000 +00:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
decimal<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
float<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
hierarchyid<\/td>\n\u00a0<smart default not valid><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
image<\/td>\n0x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
int<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
money<\/td>\n0.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
nchar<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<empty string><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ntext<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<empty string><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
numeric<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
nvarchar<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<empty string><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
real<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
smalldatetime<\/td>\n1900-01-01 00:00:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
smallint<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
smallmoney<\/td>\n0.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
sql_variant<\/td>\n\u00a0 <smart default not valid><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
text<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<empty string><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
time<\/td>\n00:00:00.0000000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
timestamp<\/td>\n\u00a0<null value not allowed><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
tinyint<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
uniqueidentifier<\/td>\n00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
varbinary<\/td>\n0x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
varchar<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<empty string><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
xml<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<empty string><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There's a handy feature in SSDT (SQL Server Development Tools) that will automatically insert a default value into a column when you change it from nullable to NOT NULL. I wasn't able to track down documentation specifying what the default values for the \"smart defaults\" were so I hopped into the SQL DB Pros corporate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssdt-sql-server-data-tools","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}