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SET OPTION PUBLIC.GLOBAL_DATABASE_ID = '1000';

CREATE TABLE t (
auto UNSIGNED BIGINT DEFAULT GLOBAL AUTOINCREMENT ( 1000000000000000 ) );
INSERT t VALUES ( DEFAULT ); -- 1000000000000001
INSERT t VALUES ( DEFAULT ); -- 1000000000000002
INSERT t VALUES ( 1001 * 1000000000000000 ); -- 1001000000000000
INSERT t VALUES ( DEFAULT ); -- NULL

1.8.3 Literal Defaults

Simple literal DEFAULT values can be specified for string, numeric, and
date/time columns. Here are some examples:
CREATE TABLE t (
c1 INTEGER,
c2 VARCHAR ( 1 ) DEFAULT 'Y', -- Y
c3 BINARY ( 20 ) DEFAULT 0x48656C6C6F, -- Hello
c4 VARCHAR ( 1 ) DEFAULT '\n', -- new line
c5 VARCHAR ( 100 ) DEFAULT 'c:\\new', -- c:\new
c6 LONG VARCHAR DEFAULT '\x61\x62\x63', -- abc
c7 INTEGER DEFAULT 0, -- 0
c8 DECIMAL ( 9, 2 ) DEFAULT 27.95, -- 27.95
c9 DOUBLE DEFAULT -123.456E-2, -- -1.23456
c10 DATE DEFAULT '2003 07 06', -- July 6, 2003
c11 TIME DEFAULT '00:01', -- 1 minute past midnight
c12 TIMESTAMP DEFAULT '20030706 14:30' ); -- 2:30 PM, July 6, 2003
SQL Anywhere offers several special literals for use in expressions and
DEFAULT specifications. These literals are sometimes called special con-
stants but they arent really constant; some of them change over time, others
change to reflect the state of program execution. When used as DEFAULT val-
ues, however, their values are frozen at the time they are copied to a row being
inserted.
<special_literal> ::= CURRENT DATABASE
| CURRENT DATE
| CURRENT TIME
| CURRENT TIMESTAMP
| CURRENT USER
| CURRENT UTC TIMESTAMP
| SQLCODE
| SQLSTATE
| USER
The CURRENT DATABASE special literal returns the VARCHAR ( 128 )
run-time name of the database (e.g., 'test').
CURRENT DATE returns a DATE value containing todays date (e.g.,
2003 06 11).
CURRENT TIME returns a TIME value containing the current time (e.g.,
10:16:40.940000). On some platforms the seconds may only contain two or
three significant digits to the right of the decimal point.
CURRENT TIMESTAMP returns a TIMESTAMP value containing the
current date and time (e.g., 2003 06 11 10:16:40.940000). This DEFAULT can
be used to answer the question When was this row inserted? On some plat-
forms the seconds may only contain two or three significant digits to the right of
the decimal point.