Re: Trigger usecase

On 7/30/24 11:46, sud wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:54 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at
> <mailto:laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>> wrote:
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>
> It is largely a matter of taste.
>
> The advantage of a trigger is that it works even if somebody
> bypasses the application
> to insert data.
>
> I think that triggers are easy to debug, but again, that's a matter
> of taste.
>
>
> Thank you David and Laurenz.
>
> Creating triggers to populates some audit table or say populating data
> in audit columns (created_by, updated_by,created_date,updated_date) is
> fine i believe, however this use case was to load/persist data in table
> with SCD-2 style, so is it good idea to use the trigger for such use case?
>
> Not sure of the exact pros and cons, but we were following certain rules
> like , if it's business logic which needs to be implemented in Database,
> then it should not be done using triggers but rather should be done
> through database procedure/functions. Hope this understanding correct.

Triggers have to use procedures/functions so I am not understanding the
issue.

>
> Regards
> Sud

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