MySQL: How to create trigger for setting creation date for new rows

Question

I ran into a problem as I tried to create two TIMESTAMP columns in my database. One called created and one called updated. I figured it would be ea

Answer 1

Your trigger needs to be "before insert", and you need to use SET instead of UPDATE:

CREATE TRIGGER task_creation_timestamp BEFORE INSERT ON tasks 
FOR EACH ROW
SET NEW.created = NOW();