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Trigger to prohibit to update AddDate Field

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Submitted on: 2/20/2005 8:25:18 PM
By: Jairo Abraham Bernal Villanueva 
Level: Advanced
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Compatibility: SQL Server 2000
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     In order to prohibit this, we can create a instead of trigger in the table. Tis code works fine with multiple updated rows in SQL Server 2000. Thus:

 
 
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				CREATE TRIGGER trig_updTableName
ON dbo.tblName
INSTEAD OF UPDATE
AS
-- We declare the needed vars
DECLARE @OldAddDate[datetime],
        @NewAddDate [datetime],
        @IDTable [int]
DECLARE update_cursor CURSOR FORWARD_ONLY READ_ONLY
    FOR
    SELECT I.IDTable, I.AddDate, D.AddDate
    FROM Inserted AS I, Deleted AS D
    WHERE I.IDTable = D.IDTable
    
OPEN update_cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM update_cursor
INTO @IDTable, @NewAddDate, @OldAddDate
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
    IF @OldAddDate != @NewAddDate
    BEGIN
        ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
        BEGIN TRANSACTION
    END
    FETCH NEXT FROM update_cursor
    INTO @IDTable, @NewAddDate, @OldAddDate
END
CLOSE update_cursor
DEALLOCATE update_cursor


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2/21/2005 11:14:17 AM

I'm new at this so it would be great if you could elaborate the logic of this trigger. Thanks again.
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11/3/2007 4:30:29 AMPrasad

Can you please eloborate what exactly this does .. in steps .. looks confusing .. sorry .....
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