Wednesday 14 December 2016

Interview Question - To populate a table without specifying values in the INSERT statement

This one should be quick and most of must be aware of it. 

Following question was asked to one of my friend in an interview for the post of Sr. Software Engineer

How would you populate following table with 5 records without specifying values in INSERT statement ?

The table structure was as follows

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#default') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #default

CREATE TABLE #default
(
id INT IDENTITY(1,1),
software VARCHAR(20) DEFAULT('microsoft'),
osType VARCHAR(10)
)

GO
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