Question

The information should be 2 date time columns(inserted/updated) with ms precision and should be automatically updated by the server whenever someone inserts, or updates a row.

Answer 1

Add columns to your table

ALTER TABLE yourTable ADD     Inserted datetime NULL,     Updated datetime NULL GO 

Create an Update and Insert Trigger to update the columns

CREATE TRIGGER yourTableInsertTrigger     ON  yourTable    AFTER INSERT AS  BEGIN     Update yourTable Set Inserted = getdate()     from Inserted      Where yourTable.Key = Inserted.Key END GO   CREATE TRIGGER yourTableUpdateTrigger     ON  yourTable    AFTER UPDATE AS  BEGIN     Update yourTable Set Updated = getdate()     from Updated     Where yourTable.Key = Updated.Key END GO 

Now if you want to be really clean, you’d make sure that these two columns couldn’t be changed/updated by using views instead of direct table access for your other access to the data. Also if your primary keys aren’t consistent, and you have many tables I’d suggest you use CodeGeneration to create the sql. MyGeneration would do nicely.