Question

I need to create trigger in SQL Server 2008 that gone insert all values from one row in which some value was changed into Log table!

For example if i have table Employees that have column id, name , password, and i update this table and insert new value for column name, than i need to insert values that was in table Employees after update in table Log.

How I can do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Here’s an example update trigger:

create table Employees (id int identity, Name varchar(50), Password varchar(50))
create table Log (id int identity, EmployeeId int, LogDate datetime, 
    OldName varchar(50))
go
create trigger Employees_Trigger_Update on Employees
after update
as
insert into Log (EmployeeId, LogDate, OldName) 
select id, getdate(), name
from deleted
go
insert into Employees (Name, Password) values ('Zaphoid', '6')
insert into Employees (Name, Password) values ('Beeblebox', '7')
update Employees set Name = 'Ford' where id = 1
select * from Log

This will print:

id   EmployeeId   LogDate                   OldName
1    1            2010-07-05 20:11:54.127   Zaphoid