[dba-SQLServer]opinions

I should just go to bed before I do any real damage. Although, I did sleep
well last night in NyQuil la la land. :)

I did say insert, but that isn't what I meant.

Basically, I'm just trying to return the new identity value after saving a
new record. The publisher seems to think that an INSERT TRIGGER could be
used to grab a new record's GUID, since @@Identity or SCOPE_IDENTIY can't.
But I don't think it's programmatically sound.

I can return the values using other methods -- I was just wondering if
anyone had used INSERT TRIGGER for this purpose.

Susan H.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <artful at rogers.com>
To: <dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 1:13 PM
Subject: RE: [dba-SQLServer]opinions


> I'm not sure why you would want to do this, Susan, but assuming that you
> want to, a trigger would do it. Do something like this in your trigger
> (caution: written in Outlook :-).
>
> DECLARE @myGUID as GUID
> SET @myGUID = NewID()
> -- do something with the new GUID
> ...
>
> Since you could export this logic to the db rather than contain it in the
> FE, I'm not sure why you'd want to do it. This comes from a perspective
> which says, "Anything MS will do for me free is code I don't have to
write."
> IOW I'd create a default value for the column (=NewID()) and be done with
> it. The Front End would receive the new value just like an ANPK, so why
> bother writing code to create it?
>
> A.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-sqlserver-admin at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-sqlserver-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan
Harkins
> Sent: March 16, 2003 12:37 PM
> To: SQLList
> Subject: [dba-SQLServer]opinions
>
>
> I'd like some opinions on using an Insert Trigger to insert a GUID value
to
> a new record. Good idea or bad?
>
> Susan H.
>
>
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