I am aware of COLUMNS_UPDATED
, well I need some quick shortcut (if anyone has made, I am already making one, but if anyone can save my time, I will appriciate it)
I need basicaly an XML of only updated column values, I need this for replication purpose.
SELECT * FROM inserted gives me each column, but I need only updated ones.
something like following...
CREATE TRIGGER DBCustomers_Insert
ON DBCustomers
AFTER UPDATE
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @sql as NVARCHAR(1024);
SET @sql = 'SELECT ';
I NEED HELP FOR FOLLOWING LINE ...., I can manually write every column, but I need
an automated routin which can work regardless of column specification
for each column, if its modified append $sql = ',' + columnname...
SET @sql = $sql + ' FROM inserted FOR XML RAW';
DECLARE @x as XML;
SET @x = CAST(EXEC(@sql) AS XML);
.. use @x
END
Inside the trigger, you can use COLUMNS_UPDATED()
like this in order to get updated value
-- Get the table id of the trigger
--
DECLARE @idTable INT
SELECT @idTable = T.id
FROM sysobjects P JOIN sysobjects T ON P.parent_obj = T.id
WHERE P.id = @@procid
-- Get COLUMNS_UPDATED if update
--
DECLARE @Columns_Updated VARCHAR(50)
SELECT @Columns_Updated = ISNULL(@Columns_Updated + ', ', '') + name
FROM syscolumns
WHERE id = @idTable
AND CONVERT(VARBINARY,REVERSE(COLUMNS_UPDATED())) & POWER(CONVERT(BIGINT, 2), colorder - 1) > 0
But this snipet of code fails when you have a table with more than 62 columns.. Arth.Overflow...
Here is the final version which handles more than 62 columns but give only the number of the updated columns. It's easy to link with 'syscolumns' to get the name
DECLARE @Columns_Updated VARCHAR(100)
SET @Columns_Updated = ''
DECLARE @maxByteCU INT
DECLARE @curByteCU INT
SELECT @maxByteCU = DATALENGTH(COLUMNS_UPDATED()),
@curByteCU = 1
WHILE @curByteCU <= @maxByteCU BEGIN
DECLARE @cByte INT
SET @cByte = SUBSTRING(COLUMNS_UPDATED(), @curByteCU, 1)
DECLARE @curBit INT
DECLARE @maxBit INT
SELECT @curBit = 1,
@maxBit = 8
WHILE @curBit <= @maxBit BEGIN
IF CONVERT(BIT, @cByte & POWER(2,@curBit - 1)) <> 0
SET @Columns_Updated = @Columns_Updated + '[' + CONVERT(VARCHAR, 8 * (@curByteCU - 1) + @curBit) + ']'
SET @curBit = @curBit + 1
END
SET @curByteCU = @curByteCU + 1
END