Sql server 2005 knowing new record is inserted

Question

Is there any way to find out whether a new record is inserted other than writing trigger in sql server 2005. (it can be tsql or by java...) Since the vendor is not allowing

Answer 1

I would suggest a best practice that might also help you out here. If you restrict updates and inserts to only go through a stored procedure, you could use that proc to also write out either an audit record or simply update a time/date field.

Answer 2

I think you need to define "Is there any way to find out whether a new record is inserted other than writing trigger". Triggers are basically event handlers in SQL. So are you wanting to have something like a trigger that fires whenever a new row is inserted into a table? If so, the answer is yes, it's called SQL Server Notification Services.

Here's a beginners article, but I'm sure you can just google "sql server notification" and get tons of results.

Here's another good article: Using SqlDependency To Monitor SQL Database Changes

Answer 3

You can define an audit table and then add an OUTPUT command to your INPUT or UPDATE statements (DELETE's too, btw).

create table fab4 (id int identity(1,1),FName varchar(80));
create table fab4_audit (act varchar(10),id int, FName_old varchar(80), FName_new varchar(80), ts datetime not null default(getdate()));

-- insert
insert into fab4(FName)
output
'INSERTED'
, inserted.*
into fab4_audit([act],id,FName_new)
select 'John' union all
select 'Paul' union all
select 'George' union all
select 'Ringo';
go

-- update
update f
set FName='Walrus'
output
'UPDATED'
, inserted.id
, deleted.FName
, inserted.FName
into fab4_audit([act],id,FName_old,FName_new)
from fab4 f
where FName='Paul';

-- delete
delete f
output
'DELETED'
, deleted.id
, deleted.FName
into fab4_audit([act],id,FName_old)
from fab4 f
where FName in ('John','George');
go

select * from fab4;
select * from fab4_audit;
go

Answer 4

Does the table have an auto increment primary key or a createDate column? You could write your a cron job that wakes up periodically and queries to see if anything new has hit the database since you last time you ran the cron job.