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SQL | Triggers exercise | Create a trigger to capture any changes made to countries
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Software ==> | SQL (198 exercises) |
Version ==> | Any version of SQL Server |
Topic ==> | Triggers (2 exercises) |
Level ==> | Average difficulty |
Subject ==> | SQL training |
- Go into SQL Server Management Studio;
- Open the SQL file you've just unzipped (you can press CTRL + O to do this); then
- Execute this script.
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The aim of this exercise is to use a trigger to write any country changes made into a separate table. Here is what the table should show if you rename Vietnam to Viet Nam and then insert and delete the (to date) fictitious country OwlLand:

What the log table should show after these changes.
To start the ball rolling, create the table shown above with two columns:
Column | What it should contain |
---|---|
CountryName | The name of the country just inserted, edited or deleted |
Change | Whether this was inserted, deleted or changed |
Now create a trigger to run after anyone changes a country. This should capture two rows:
Row | Notes |
---|---|
The old country name | Take the deleted table's country name |
The new country name | Take the inserted table's country name |
Note that when you update a table, you populate both the deleted and inserted tables.
Now create two more triggers:
Trigger | What it should do |
---|---|
After insert | Add a row to the changes table containing the new country's name |
After delete | Add a row to the changes table containing the name just deleted |
When you're happy everything's working OK, optionally save your query as Catalonia perhaps.sql, then close it down.