I am a pretty much a new user of Hibernate (though I have used it but this was long time ago). Now I get to use it again.

This is probably an easy (newbie) question.

I have MS SQL 2005 as RDBMS. I have in one table a column called LastModifiedDate of type datetime.
It is non-null column and it has 'Default value or binding' set to getdate()
/which is a function to get the current datetime in MS SQL 2005/.

In my mapped java class I want to force Hibernate to exclude this column when Hibernate generates INSERT SQL statements.
Why? Because the default value for a Date property in Java is null and I think Hibernate uses NULL in the generated SQL.
And because my column is non-null at DB level I get ConstraintViolationException.

How can I do that? How should I mark my java field/property/?

Currently it is marked this way.

@Column(name="LastModifiedDate")
private Date lastModifiedDate;

I guess there is a way to force Hibernate to just not use this field when generating INSERT SQL statements.

Thanks a lot in advance.

I found my answer after reading this.
http://listarchive.cinjug.org/html/user ... 00024.html

The correct way to mark my java field/property/ is the following.

@Column(name="LastModifiedDate", nullable=false, insertable=false)
private Date lastModifiedDate;

Thanks anyway.