Setting timestamp

Question

Hi
In my MSSQL server I have a table column called timestamp of
type timestamp.
In my Coldfusion file, I set a parameter called 'timestamp' =
Now(), and cfsqltype="CF_SQL_TIMESTAMP" . However, when I tried a
database query to insert 'timestamp' into SQL, it resulted in the
following error msg:
[Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Cannot insert
an explicit value into a timestamp column. Use INSERT with a column
list to exclude the timestamp column, or insert a DEFAULT into the
timestamp column.
Should I be doing something differently? I tried setting type
to string etc but nothing is working for me and I have spent hours
on this.
Thanks

Answer 1

> [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Cannot
insert an explicit value
> into a timestamp column. Use INSERT with a column list
to exclude the timestamp
> column, or insert a DEFAULT into the timestamp column.
>
> Should I be doing something differently? I tried setting
type to string etc
> but nothing is working for me and I have spent hours on
this.
> Thanks
The error message is very clear as to what the problem is and
what the
solution is.
Timestamp columns can't take values in an insert statement,
the DB
populates them automatically.
I found this out by googling your error message, and the very
first match
explains it.
http://tinyurl.com/d8blyc
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Cannot+insert+an+explicit+value+into+a+times tamp+column.+Use+INSERT+with+a+column+list+to+exclude+the+timestamp+column%2C+or+insert+a+ DEFAULT+into+the+timestamp+column.+&btnG=Search>
As does the second match, now that I look at it.
A good rule of thumb is that the first thing you should do if
you get
stumped by an error (if just reading the error message
doesn't explain it
;-), is to google the error message. I find that generally
the answers
within the first two pages of results, quite often the first
result!
Adam