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Creating a trigger to keep track of data changes

The Fresh Fruit Delivery company needs to keep track of any new items added to the Products table. You can do this by using a trigger.

The new trigger will store the name, price, and first introduced date for new items into a ProductsHistory table.

This exercise is part of the course

Building and Optimizing Triggers in SQL Server

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Exercise instructions

  • Create the ProductsNewItems trigger on the Products table.
  • Set the trigger to fire when data is inserted into the table.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

-- Create a new trigger
CREATE TRIGGER ProductsNewItems
ON ___
AFTER ___
AS
	-- Add details to the history table
	INSERT INTO ProductsHistory(Product, Price, Currency, FirstAdded)
	SELECT Product, Price, Currency, GETDATE()
	FROM inserted;
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