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> This is definitely the behavior of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle,
> and I'm pretty sure most others follow it as well.
  
> Whoa. Be careful what you say about Oracle.
>
> Oracle does have default values for table columns, defined
> by the DEFAULT clause in CREATE/ALTER TABLE.
>
> However, the _only_ way to get a column set to the default value
> is to leave the column out of the INSERT statement altogether.
> There is nothing you can put in a VALUES(..) list which
> will do the trick, nor is there anything that can be bound to
> a placeholder which will result in the default being set.

You sure about that? You might want to check your docs, or
update to a newer version of Oracle. If I recall correctly,
this ability was added in 9i.

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