Systematic Use of Default Values - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

Database Design

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.10
Published
July 2021
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-07-27
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B035-1094
lifecycle
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

Because SQL has a built-in, nonprocedural, method to handle default values (see the default value control phrases DEFAULT and WITH DEFAULT in Teradata Vantage™ - Data Types and Literals, B035-1143), no special coding is required on the part of users. Note that if no defaults are specified for a column and it is not defined as NOT NULL, then SQL automatically inserts nulls to represent any information missing from an INSERT request.