Question : Is getdate() the same as CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in a query?

There are not real queries: ItemDate is a datetime column

SELECT * FROM Items WHERE ItemDate > CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
SELECT * FROM Items WHERE ItemDate > getdate()

Also, if you have a DateTime field, can you set it's default to be CURRENT_TIMESTAMP? Or should you use getdate() as it's default value?

I am understand the difference between the datetime column type and the timestamp column type, but I was wondering about the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP variable and if you can use it the same as getdate() in calculations etc.

Answer : Is getdate() the same as CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in a query?

current_timestamp

is more common syntax across all types of Database system...
and a timestamp is again usually recognised as a datetime  in other systems...


microsodt like to use things like now() , getdate()