It's usually a good practice to have two columns called
date_created and date_updated in every table. One
can always use it in application and it helps in debugging too as
to when a record was created and last updated in various
circumstances and contexts.
This responsibility can be given to MySQL to automatically assign
current time values to these columns.
In MySQL 5.6 onwards, this can be done by setting the data type
of the columns to be either date time or timestamp and creating
date_created column with NOT NULL DEFAULT
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP schema and date_updated column
with NOT NULL DEFAULT …
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