SQL Soundings: Find NOT NULL Columns Without DEFAULT Constraints

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Find NOT NULL Columns Without DEFAULT Constraints

This is really handy when you have a large legacy database where the previous owner forgot to add DEFAULT constraints to the NOT NULL columns.

This script has been moved to the Schema Analysis scripts page.

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