|  | Posted by stephen on 08/21/07 09:25 
On Aug 16, 2:14 pm, Yas <yas...@gmail.com> wrote:> On 16 Aug, 13:46, Erland Sommarskog <esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:
 >
 > > The first question is why do you want to do this in the first place? It
 > > seems funny that you would want to have two identical tables in the same
 > > database? Or ar the tables in different databases on different servers?
 >
 > Hi, sorry perhaps I should have been a bit more clear. Well, Table2 is
 > essentially a Master table that will have a record of all users that
 > were ever added to Table1. So even if at a later date userA and userB
 > were removed from Table1, a record of UserA and UserB will always be
 > there in Table2.
 >
 > So yes right now Table1 and 2 are identical and that seems
 > pointless...however soon Table2 will be different in that it will have
 > a record of rows that are no longer present in Table1. I'm keeping
 > track of them via another method which checks if a row has been
 > removed from Table1 if so it adds the date of removal to a column of
 > that row in Table2. This is why I dont want to update Table2 if a row
 > is removed in Table1...only if a new row is added or an existing one
 > modified.
 >
 > I hope that explains what I'm trying to do :-) can I still use
 > Triggers to do this?
 >
 > > If the tables are on the same server, a trigger would be the best way
 > > to do it.
 >
 > Yes, they are on the same server and in the same Database.
 
 Couldn't you just use one table and add column use as a DELETED flag
 to logically delete a user so the physical row is still there?
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