> We have a table (170K rows) and we altered the colum 'created_date' to not > null with default value to '1900-01-01 00:00:00' , after the alter column > statement is complited we select for the same column for nulls and I found > 13K rows with null value > select * from table1 where creted_date is null > Run again an update for that column with the default date and it did not > work too.
Setting a default value for a column will NOT update any values of records already in the database. However a simple UPDATE table1 SET created_date = '1900-01-01 00:00:00' WHERE created_date IS NULL should update the records so they are set the way you want. Sincerely, Craig Vincent --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
