Microsoft SQL Server: Any way to tell when a record was created?

Question

Our customer wants to order by the record creation date. To me this seems like a system variable, some sort of meta data for the record itself.

Is there a way to te

Answer 1

The creationdate field should be added. You fix the ' hope that no one modifies it" part by adding a trigger on update that does not allow that field to be updated, ever.