Inserting Default Value as Current Date + 30 Days in MySQL

Inserting default value as current date + 30 days in MySQL

If you're using MySQL >= 5.0, use a trigger:

CREATE TRIGGER setDefaultDate
    BEFORE INSERT ON tableName
    FOR EACH ROW
    SET NEW.date = ADDDATE(curdate(), INTERVAL 30 DAY);

The trigger will activate when you insert into tableName, setting date to now + 30 days. If your insert sets the date, it will override this default due to the BEFORE. The date is calculated using ADDDATE.

How do you set a default value for a MySQL Datetime column?

IMPORTANT EDIT:
It is now possible to achieve this with DATETIME fields since MySQL 5.6.5, take a look at the other post below...

Previous versions can't do that with DATETIME...

But you can do it with TIMESTAMP:

mysql> create table test (str varchar(32), ts TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> desc test;
+-------+-------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+
| Field | Type        | Null | Key | Default           | Extra |
+-------+-------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+
| str   | varchar(32) | YES  |     | NULL              |       | 
| ts    | timestamp   | NO   |     | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP |       | 
+-------+-------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into test (str) values ("demo");
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from test;
+------+---------------------+
| str  | ts                  |
+------+---------------------+
| demo | 2008-10-03 22:59:52 | 
+------+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql>

CAVEAT: IF you define a column with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON as default, you will need to ALWAYS specify a value for this column or the value will automatically reset itself to "now()" on update. This means that if you do not want the value to change, your UPDATE statement must contain "[your column name] = [your column name]" (or some other value) or the value will become "now()". Weird, but true. I am using 5.5.56-MariaDB

MySQL default date() + 14 days, for a column?

Create a table and set up a trigger for that table.

CREATE TABLE product(
    product_id INT PRIMARY KEY,
    product VARCHAR(40),
    entryDate DATETIME,
    expDate DATETIME
);

CREATE TRIGGER test_trigger BEFORE INSERT ON `product` 
FOR EACH ROW SET
    NEW.entryDate = IFNULL(NEW.entryDate, NOW()),
    NEW.expDate = TIMESTAMPADD(DAY, 14, NEW.entryDate);

On each insert into the table, the trigger sets the entryDate to the current time and expDate to 14 days time.

make default value for a field to be current_timestamp + some interval

dateadd is an SQL server function; mysql has date_add with different syntax.

To use a complex expression for a default value requires mysql 8 or mariadb 10.2+. And in mysql, the entire expression must be parenthesized.

You want:

default (date_add(current_timestamp, interval 30 day))

Set NOW() as Default Value for datetime datatype?

As of MySQL 5.6.5, you can use the DATETIME type with a dynamic default value:

CREATE TABLE foo (
    creation_time      DATETIME DEFAULT   CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
    modification_time  DATETIME ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
)

Or even combine both rules:

modification_time DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

Reference:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/timestamp-initialization.html

http://optimize-this.blogspot.com/2012/04/datetime-default-now-finally-available.html

Prior to 5.6.5, you need to use the TIMESTAMP data type, which automatically updates whenever the record is modified. Unfortunately, however, only one auto-updated TIMESTAMP field can exist per table.

CREATE TABLE mytable (
  mydate TIMESTAMP
)

See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/create-table.html

If you want to prevent MySQL from updating the timestamp value on UPDATE (so that it only triggers on INSERT) you can change the definition to:

CREATE TABLE mytable (
  mydate TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
)

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