Hi,

  You can specify a default value for the create_date
column like:
  create_date timestamp default 'now'

  In the insert statement just ommit that field and you
will get the default, as
  insert into test1 (id, name) values (1, 'xxx');

Regards,
-- 
Guo Bin

--- Ang Sei Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello to all the SQL gurus...
> 
> I have this little table:
> 
> test1 (
>         id char(8) primary key,
>         name char(20),
>         create_date timestamp
> );
> 
> Now, the create_date need to be updated
> to date and time whenever id is being
> inserted or updated.
> 
> Is there a way in SQL that I can do this
> automatically?


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