Logging into table in SQL Server trigger

Question

I am coding SQL Server 2005 trigger. I want to make some logging during trigger execution, using INSERT statement into my log table. When there occurs error during execution

Answer 1

The problem here is that logging is part of transaction that modifies your data. Nested transactions will not help here. What you need is to put you logging actions into a separate context (connection), i.e. make it independent from you current transaction.

Two options come to my mind:

• use Service Broker for logging - put log data to queue, receive and save the data 'on the other side of the pipe' (i.e. in another process/connection/transaction)
• use OPENQUERY - you will need to register you own server as a 'linked server' and execute queries 'remotely' (I know, this looks a little bit strange, but an option anyway ...)

HTH