Question

I want to create a trigger on a table that exists on a remote SQL Server 2005/2008 database. I only have read only access to that database. My first question is, is this even possible?

If this is not possible what are my other options, because i want to listen to any changes on that table and perform some calculations.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you only have read-only access to the database, then no, you can’t create triggers.

If all you have is read-only access to the remote database, the only possible ways I can think of doing it are;

• Polling (ouch)
• Asking the DBAs to help you with the trigger creation or some kind of one-way replication.
  They may not be entirely unwilling to do so if the alternative is polling.