If your tables contain created and modified/updated dates what is the best practice for these?
1. Should you use UTC dates?
2. Do you use a default for the creation date (I assume yes)?
3. Should you create a trigger to handle the last update date? Or do you update the column directly in your stored procedures that modify data?
Also, as an aside if you store the user who created/updated the record do you store a foreign key reference to the user table or do you store the username as a varchar? Of course I know you'd normally store the fk, but I wasn't sure if the "logging" nature of the column suggests storing a string value.
Hi, I am using SQL Server 2000 and have the following questions:
1. How do I know the last updated (data) date using system objects or any other method? 2. How do I know the last modified date of a table using system objects or any other method? 3. How do I know when a table is last accessed
Hello, I am using SQL Server 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0. We have a very simple content management system where we have to keep track of date last modified for each row in all of our content tables. I know there's a "timestamp" datatype that is used for replication scenarios, but is there anything similar that I can use to set up a date_modified column for each of my content tables that will automatically update with GETDATE() whenever anything in a given row is updated? Or do I have to create a date_modified column of smalldatetime datatype and write a trigger on update for EVERY single table of content that I have in the database? It seems there should be an easier way to do this than to write 20 triggers for my 20 content tables. Thanks!
Any one please tell me is there any possible way to identify the table modified date.
I have checked the table created date from sysobjects or by right click properties. my requirement is to identify the exact date of table modification and column creation,alter dates. Is there any such provision in sql server 2000 or 2005 , My application is in sql server 2000.
I need to confirm this because some database structure modification has affected my application and causing dataloss i need to check with the date of structural change of table and lost data date can any one help
I need to set only the date part of tblEventStaffRequired.StartTime to tblEvents.EventDate while maintaining the time part in tblEventStaffRequired.StartTime.
UPDATE tblEventStaffRequired SET StartTime = <expression here> FROM tblEvents INNER JOIN tblEventStaffRequired ON tblEvents.ID = tblEventStaffRequired.EventID
Hi,I want to save the last modification date when the row is updated. I have a column called "LastModification" in the table, every time the row is update I want to set the value of this column to the current date. So far all I know is that I need to use a trigger and the GetDate() function, but could any body help me with how to set the value of the column to getdate()? thanks for your help.
I am taking a "complete backup" of my production db every day using Backupagent of Arcserver 2000. But the Modified Date of .mdf and .ldf files show an older date. Is it normal? Thanks Wilson
Does anyone know how to get a table's 'last modified date' in SQL 7 ? Sysobjects contains the 'create date', but I can't find a 'last modified date' anywhere......
the ssis package loops through a folder using a foreach loop container and imports the data inside each .csv file into the database.
Now I would like to add the functionality to first check the modified date of the .csv file. If it is NOT today's date then the package should fail or go to error.
Hi, the ssis package loops through a folder using a foreach loop container and imports the data inside each .csv file into the database. Now I would like to add the functionality to first check the modified date of the .csv file. If it is NOT today's date then the package should fail or go to error. Any thoughts how to do this please? Thanks
I was just thinking about a situation which I have been tasked with in that I have a package that is scheduled to run once a day which will import data from a flat file. The data does not have any distinguishing time that can be used to see whether or not it is beyond a last imported time.
I was wondering, is there a way to access the date modified of the file? If so I could simply append this time to a table which keeps track of all of the files and the modified dates which I have ever imported for this task.
I'm an Oracle DBA and just getting used to MS Sqlserver. I noticed that the windows explorer "date modified" field for my database files ( .MDF files ) doesn't change much even though there is activity going on. Sometimes it doesn't change for a week.
Is this the expected behavior? Could it be that no data is changing in my database? ( I find that hard to believe)
I am looking to create an SSIS package to import text files into an SQL table. I'd like to import the 'date modified' attribute from the text file into one of the columns as well as the data within the text file.
I'm thinking an ActiveX task and variable currently, just wondered if anyone had any other thoughts on how this could be achieved.
ID AppName DepCode DepName Group ModifiedDate YearlyAmount 1 Nestle NS Foods Products 01/12/14 451 1 Nestle NS Foods Products 01/17/14 495 2 Oracle OR Software Info 01/24/14 279 2 Oracle OR Soft & IT Info 01/26/14 310 2 Oracle ORL Software Info 01/25/14 219 2 Oracle ORL Soft IT 01/28/14 600
MonthlyAmount Funded AppCategory Research 37.5623 Yes NE NA 41.2365 No N NA 23.2568 Yes OR InProgress 25.8333 Yes ORL NA 18.2189 Yes SOF Approved 50.0000 No IT RejectedExpected Output:
ID AppName DepCode DepName Group ModifiedDate YearlyAmount 1 Nestle NS Foods Products 01/17/14 946 2 Oracle OR Soft & IT Info 01/26/14 589 2 Oracle ORL Soft IT 01/28/14 819
MonthlyAmount Funded AppCategory Research 78.7988 No N NA 49.0901 Yes ORL NA 68.2189 No IT Rejected
I want to pick the recent modified date for DepCode and sum Yearly and Monthly Amount. I have tried this query and not able to get the output. This is the single table.
select B1.[ID], B1.[AppName], B1.[DepCode], B1.[DepName], B1.[Group], B2.ModifiedDate, B2.YearlyAmount, B2.MonthlyAmount, B1.[FuBded], B1.[AppCategory], B1.[Research] FROM Business B1 INNER JOIN (select [ID], MAX(ModifiedDate) as ModifiedDate, SUM(YearlyAmount) as YearlyAmount, SUM(MonthlyAmount) as MonthlyAmount from Business Group by ID) B2 ON B1.ID = B2.ID AND B1.ModifiedDate = B2.ModifiedDate
If we want to get the changes happened in database we will get through sys.objects or sys.tables .but we are only getting it table name . But how to get by table name and what the column added to that table or what column has been modified (datatype or constraint) .
For example if i added employee table column called deptid it should be shown in changes in geiven date
SELECT modify_date ,type_desc ,name FROM sys.objects WHERE is_ms_shipped=0 --AND modify_date>='yyyy/mm/dd' <--optionally put in your date here ORDER BY 1 DESC
How to get column name of a table which is modified...
basically what we need is a query that will allow me to provide a directory and a variable for number of days for instance 1 day old and I want to be able to able to delete all files older than that date and of course I want to be able exclude files of a particular type where I would give it a wild card statement for example say i wanted to save all csv files i would have the wild card say <> '%.csv'
I have a database that is actively being used and updated. When I look at the last modified date of the mdf file, it shows as a couple of weeks ago date and the transaction log file .ldf file shows a couple of days ago. wonder if the database is constantly updated and changed, should it show the currently date instead. Also, the attribte of mdf file show A as archive. what does it mean? Thanks
Is there such a date/time?I see the Created date on the list of stored procs, but really want aDate Last Updated. After changing code for 3 hours, I tend to forgetwhich procs I've worked on, and which need to be move to production.any simple way to keep track of the last procs played with?thanks in advance...Join Bytes!
Brand new to this, so please bear with me.I'm using the following code fragment to update a datetime field on a SQL Server 2005 database table:cmd.CommandText = "Update Projects Set EntryDate = " & Convert.ToDateTime(txtEntryDate.Text)cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()The result of the update operation is the the database field contains the value "1900-01-01 00:00:00:000". This probably means that I passed nulls to SQL; however, I see a valid date in the txtEntryDate field on my web form (i.e., "06/18/2007"). I also did a "Response.write" to display the txtEntryDate and it looks Okay.Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?Thanks!Using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express.
I was wondering, is it really true that in Sql Server 2005, there is no updated date -property for stored procedures? There is a created date -property, but it's not useful, because stored procedure's get updated often. This is a huge disadvantage for me, and I was really waiting for ms to fix this problem after sql server 2000, but no. Does anyone figured out any solution to this problem?
Hope all of us know that DST Patch update will be on 4th November,07. Here my query is how to retrieve the DST patch updated date in sqlserver 2000? any queries on this? Would any one help me on this?
