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...new obj.little_date What I observe is that if there is no constraint on the little_date column, then the value of obj.little_date is nil (as you would expect). However, if there is a default constraint on little_date, created by something like: "ALTER TABLE XXX WITH NOCHECK ADD CONSTRAINT DF_blah DEFAULT (getdate()) FOR little_date" and I then do: obj.new obj.little_date then little_date has a value of "Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 Central Standard Time 2000" What gives? Is ActiveRecord attempting to create a default for this record since "it saw" a default constrain...