I think you misread the code-- the datetime is still being generated in SQL, in the stored procedure, as GETDATE(). Nothing extra is going down the wire. The po

I think you misread the code-- the datetime is still being generated in SQL, in the stored procedure, as GETDATE(). Nothing extra is going down the wire. The point is to remove the default constraint, and thus the check for null on every insert. May still be unnecessary, but seems like a fair optimization.