Insert current date into a date column using T-SQL

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I m trying to insert a date when a user decides to deactivate or activate an UserID  I m trying to use a SP to trigger that but apparantly this is harder than I thought it would be   I can do a   SELECT GETDATE     to get the date but is there a way to insert that information from GETDATE and put it into a column I want

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If you re looking to store the information in a table  you need to use an INSERT or an UPDATE statement  It sounds like you need an UPDATE statement   UPDATE  SomeTable SET     SomeDateField   GETDATE   WHERE   SomeID    SomeID

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Couple of ways  Firstly  if you re adding a row each time a  de activation occurs  you can set the column default to GETDATE   and not set the value in the insert  Otherwise   UPDATE TableName SET  ColumnName    GETDATE   WHERE UserId    userId

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You could use getdate   in a default as this SO question s accepted answer shows  This way you don t provide the date  you just insert the rest and that date is the default value for the column   You could also provide it in the values list of your insert and do it manually if you wish

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To insert a new row into a given table  tblTable     INSERT INTO tblTable  DateColumn  VALUES  GETDATE      To update an existing row    UPDATE tblTable SET DateColumn   GETDATE    WHERE ID   RequiredUpdateID   Note that when INSERTing a new row you will need to observe any constraints which are on the table - most likely the NOT NULL constraint - so you may need to provide values for other columns eg      INSERT INTO tblTable  Name  Type  DateColumn  VALUES   John   7  GETDATE

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UPDATE Table SET DateColumn GETDATE   WHERE UserID  UserID   If you re inserting into a table  and will always need to put the current date  I would recommend setting GETDATE   as the default value for that column  and don t allow NULLs

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