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datetime and timestamp as default

Hi,

I can't work out exactly what I need to do with datetime and timestamp,
can anyone help?
I would like a column created_timestamp to be populated on record
creation (and preferably not updatable);

and a column updated_timestamp to be populated on record creation, and
then automatically updated on any update.

should created_timestamp be of type datetime?
and updated_timestamp be of type timestamp?

and is ordering of the columns an issue (i.e. only the first gets
updated)?

mysql complains on the following?

create table history (
name varchar(20) not null,
createdtimestamp datetime not null default current_timestamp,
updatedtimestamp timestamp not null,
primary key(name)
);

Many TIA.

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Sep 20 '05 #1
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