Question

What is the best way to set up a trigger to get all new rows in a table and insert them into a work queue table.

Many Thanks
Sp

Answer 1

To answer the question you asked

CREATE TRIGGER dbo.tr_i_BaseTable 
   ON  dbo.BaseTable 
   AFTER INSERT
AS 
BEGIN
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

   INSERT INTO WorkTable
   SELECT * FROM INSERTED

END

However instead of actually duplicating the rows twice can you not use some other attribute of the rows to detect “New” ones that should be considered part of the worktable. Such as ID or adding an “inserted” date/time field.

Or another approach might be to just start afresh with the new WorkTable and consider all previous records to be archived. You can create a (possibly Partitioned) View UNION ALL-ing the 2 tables for those queries that need to work on the consolidated set.