Please help with a Trigger

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Please help with a Trigger

abdel_mesbah

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September 2, 2013 at 8:53 am

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Hi There,
I have just joined this great forum.
I have a question regarding Triggers pls
I have a table dbo.Levels and I need to track a start and end date of each level? I have 3 levels
Level 1, Level 2 and level 3? and the level is pull or I need it to match the actual level from another column within a table called dbo.maincase
any help would be much appreciated
Thank you
Abdel

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Erland Sommarskog SSC-Insane Points: 24038 More actions · Answer 1

There is a wee bit too much information missing in your post. I don't even see where the trigger would come into play.

As a start can you post the CREATE TABLE statement for your table and sample data, so we can get a little better understanding?

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abdel_mesbah SSC Enthusiast Points: 132 More actions · Answer 2

Hi there,

thank you for the answer and please find the create a table

Create TABLE Levels(

ID INT,

[Level] NVARCHAR(255),

DateCreated DATETIME DEFAULT GetDate(),

DateUpdated DATETIME DEFAULT GetDate()

)

GO

CREATE TRIGGER Upd ON Maincase

AFTER UPDATE ,INSERT

AS

UPDATE Levels

SET DateUpdated = GetDate()

FROM Levels INNER JOIN

deleted ON Levels.ID = deleted.ID

Go

I want to store the value of a level and the date when it started and if that level changes I want to store the date of when it changed again

Thanks Again

Abdel

venkat.ecengg 68608 SSC Journeyman Points: 84 More actions · Answer 3

Can you please provide the table schema of table maincase?

abdel_mesbah SSC Enthusiast Points: 132 More actions · Answer 4

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

Also some sample data for the tables would be useful.

Edit: Not a list of the columns in the table. The table's definition, the way you gave the Levels table.

The trigger as written is not going to work properly, the deleted table will always be empty for an insert. For an insert, update trigger you you probably rather want the inserted table

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venkat.ecengg 68608 SSC Journeyman Points: 84 More actions · Answer 6

From your written I understand that you want to audit whenever a new level is added to the maincase table, if its a new level then you want to make an entry to it, if not any changes to the existing level to record the modified date?

If i'm right in this case, then you might want to check the logical tables (inserted & deleted) row count. If inserted table has more than 1 record and deleted has no records then make a new entry to Levels table. If both the table has more than one record then update the date time based on the logical table level field.

Hope it helps!:-)

abdel_mesbah SSC Enthusiast Points: 132 More actions · Answer 7

thats correct, I need kind of when 1 level is set to capture a date and if that level changes I need to record say when that level has changed again and insert some kind of 2nd row with the new level again and start date, which can be same as end date from teh prior row if I make sense?

Thank you

Erland Sommarskog SSC-Insane Points: 24038 More actions · Answer 8

Kind of? One thing is for sure. If you don't know what you want, chances that we will know are slim.

In any case, please post the CREATE TABLE statement for a simplified version of Maincase, one that only has this level column and the primary key. Add to this sample data for Maincase and Level. Explain what should happen when a certain operation occurs on Maincase.

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abdel_mesbah SSC Enthusiast Points: 132 More actions · Answer 9

Hi there,

thank you for the reply and didnt mean the kind of as I dont know what I want 🙂

thats what I am capturing at the moment

Maincase

ID Level firstname surname

001 Level01 Jo Bloggs

if i change the level on main case above to level02 from level01 I need to record the date like below

ID Level datestarted date ended

001 Level01 01/01/2013 31/03/2013

001 level2 31/03/2013 a default date if the level has not changed as yet

Much Appreciate your input

Abdel

Erland Sommarskog SSC-Insane Points: 24038 More actions · Answer 10

When I said INSERT statements, I did mean INSERT statements. That would have given you a tested solution. This is an untested solution to what I think (i.e. guess) what you want:

CREATE TRIGGER Upd ON Maincase

AFTER UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE AS

INSERT Levels (ID, Level)

SELECT ID, Level FROM inserted

UPDATE Levels

SET DateUpdated = GetDate()

FROM Levels

JOIN deleted ON Levels.ID = deleted.ID

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 11

abdel_mesbah (9/2/2013)
Hi there,
thank you for the reply and didnt mean the kind of as I dont know what I want 🙂
thats what I am capturing at the moment
Maincase
ID Level firstname surname
001 Level01 Jo Bloggs
if i change the level on main case above to level02 from level01 I need to record the date like below
ID Level datestarted date ended
001 Level01 01/01/2013 31/03/2013
001 level2 31/03/2013 a default date if the level has not changed as yet
Much Appreciate your input
Abdel

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abdel_mesbah SSC Enthusiast Points: 132 More actions · Answer 12

abdel_mesbah

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September 3, 2013 at 3:06 am

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Thank you jeff

abdel_mesbah SSC Enthusiast Points: 132 More actions · Answer 13

Hi Erland,

thank you for the query, it did work good for me and the only issue I need to fix now is

ID Level DateCreated DateUpdated

11577Higher Risk Level 2013-09-03 14:34:35.9272013-09-03 14:37:03.050

11577Information Level 2013-09-03 14:35:11.7972013-09-03 14:37:03.050

11577Representation Level 2013-09-03 14:37:03.0502013-09-03 14:37:03.050

How can I stop the dateUpdated to update for all the rows?

Many Thanks

Abdel

Erland Sommarskog SSC-Insane Points: 24038 More actions · Answer 14

If I get this right, you should get it working by adding the condition

AND Levels.Level = deleted.Level

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