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Adding not null column without default value

Reports attempts to create NOT NULL columns without DEFAULT values.

Example (Microsoft SQL Server):

CREATE TABLE foo (a INT, b INT) ALTER TABLE foo ADD c INT NOT NULL;

By default, a column holds NULL values. In the example, we use the NOT NULL constraint that enforces a column not to accept NULL values. If we prohibit to use NULL values, we must set the DEFAULT value that SQL can use when we create a new record.

ALTER TABLE foo ADD c INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 42;

You can quickly add the DEFAULT value by using the Add DEFAULT value quick-fix.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

SqlAddNotNullColumn
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | SQL

Inspection ID: SqlAddNotNullColumnInspection

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection SqlAddNotNullColumn

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025