SQL | Triggers exercise | Create a trigger to capture any changes made to countries

This exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to choose the correct Wise Owl Microsoft training course, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

You can learn how to do this exercise if you attend one of more of the courses listed below!

Software ==> SQL  (198 exercises)
Version ==> Any version of SQL Server
Topic ==> Triggers  (2 exercises)
Level ==> Average difficulty
Classroom ==> Fast-track SQL  /  Advanced SQL
Online ==> Fast-track SQL  /  Advanced SQL
Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file (if you have any problems doing this, click here for help). Once you've done this:
  1. Go into SQL Server Management Studio;
  2. Open the SQL file you've just unzipped (you can press CTRL + O to do this); then
  3. Execute this script.

This will generate the database that you'll need to use in order to do this exercise (note that the database and script are only to be used for exercises published on this website, and may not be reused or distributed in any form without the prior written permission of Wise Owl).

You need a minimum screen resolution of about 700 pixels width to see our exercises. This is because they contain diagrams and tables which would not be viewable easily on a mobile phone or small laptop. Please use a larger tablet, notebook or desktop computer, or change your screen resolution settings.

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:

Log of country changes

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. 

You can unzip this file to see the answers to this exercise, although please remember this is for your personal use only.
This page has 0 threads Add post