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Software ==>	SQL (203 exercises)
Topic ==>	Triggers (2 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	SQL training

Use a trigger to log when anyone adds, deletes or renames a country

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file . Once you've done this:

Go into SQL Server Management Studio;
Open the SQL file you've just unzipped (you can press CTRL + O to do this); then
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).

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:

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.

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