Creating a default named constraint with MS SQL Server
Published on Jun 1, 2022
This is something that I never previously thought of until I went and tried to delete an index that was created and it had a random name across different environments. To say the least it was a real pain and ended up being where more manual than I ever thought it could be.
This is when a learned how to create default constraints with a defined name so it would no longer generate a random index name.
Let's start by looking at an example of creating a default constraint when adding a new field to a table that creates a random name: