Procedural code automatically executed in response to a database event.

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Trigger in MySQL

Please help me for few question in SQL.. I want to create the trigger which prevents insertion in the reservation table of flights (numflights), which does not exist. Tables ...
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How can I know which store procedure or trigger is using a table on SQL Server 2008 R2?

This is the case that in the DB I'm checking, there is an archive table which keeps the user history, and there is a trigger or store procedure that after some time delete rows from this table, in ...
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Performance of a Trigger vs Stored Procedure in MySQL

A post here on DBA.StackExchange (What are the best practices for triggers to maintain a revision number on records?) has spawned an interesting question (at least, interesting to me) regarding ...
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Disable trigger for just one table

Is it possible to disable a trigger momentarily but for just one table. For example I have table, TableA with an on insert, update and delete trigger. I also have a table B with the same triggers but ...
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Implementing a Circular Buffer (Sliding window) in MySQL

I intend to store some Java objects in a MySQL database, accompanied by a timestamp. These objects should be kept in a Sliding Window fashion (also known as Circular Buffer), meaning that only the ...
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Making a column immutable in MySQL

I want to make a column in a relation unmodifyable for consistency reasons. The backstory is that I have a n:n relationship where the "connecting" relation has additional values. I don't want that ...
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Call a stored procedure from a trigger

I have created a stored procedure in mysql using the following syntax. DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `sp-set_comment_count`; DELIMITER $$ CREATE PROCEDURE `sp_set-comment_count` (IN _id INT) BEGIN -- ...
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Using MySQL triggers or transactions?

I want to ask your opinion in using MySQL triggers or transactions in a website. Actually I have a history payment table with - UserId | OperationId | Comment | Credits | Sign (debit or credit). So ...
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Is it normal to use many Triggers?

I have many so-called summary columns throughout my database to count number of rows in other tables. For example, counting the number of comments by a user (a column in the user table). Currently, I ...
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Is it possible to get execution call stack in a trigger?

I have 10 stored procedures and each of them does INSERTs into one tableX. Is it possible in a trigger body of tableX to get what object causes modification of tableX (stored proc1 or sp2 or....) ? ...
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What are the best practices for triggers to maintain a revision number on records?

I have an audit trail implemented on an application database that captures old value, new value, modification time, and user inserting it into another table. I'm now wanting to add a revision number ...
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Database logon trigger

To block a particular user and IP combination on an Oracle Database , I created the following trigger, and compiled without errors. Create or replace trigger you_may_not_login after logon on database ...
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Policies RE database triggers in well-designed applications?

I've heard all kinds of horror stories around gremlins living in database triggers, and--worse--systems being brought down by the addition of a trigger that caused a chain of cascading ones. I'm ...
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Can mysqldump dump triggers and procedures?

Is there any way of making a mysqldump which will save all the triggers and procedures from a specified db? Some time ago I read that mysqldump will also save my triggers, but it doesn't look like ...
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Can a trigger access the query string?

I'm thinking about using triggers as a logging mechanism in MySQL (v. 5.1) and therefore I'd like my trigger to get the query string in order to store it in another tabe. I couldn't find anything ...
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Has anyone ran into this replication breaking bug before?

I've been having this issue where replication was breaking on colliding primary keys. The annoying thing was these were auto increment generated. I think my issues been tracked down to ...