title: What are the benefits of putting a default value in a column?
body: <p>If this question is too broad, my apologies.  I am a DBA and I am working with a developer that thinks column defaults are a bad idea and that just setting the column to disallow nulls is good enough. </p>
  
  <p>I am looking for the benefits of column defaults from the developers point of view.  Thank you for your comments.</p>