Now that you know how to create simple triggers from our previous article, Introducing Database Triggers, let’s move on to more complex scenarios.
By Rafael Victória-Pereira
As you probably realized by now, a trigger can be used for many different tasks. Updating a certain value each time a record is somehow created or changed is just a very small part of what you can do with a trigger. Let me take you on an exploration of a few scenarios where a properly crafted trigger can be a simple solution to a complex problem. Instead of vague and insipid scenarios, we’ll return to our fictional UMADB database and its environment to provide something you can actually relate to. So, just to quickly get you back “into character”: we work for ACME University’s IT department, and we’ve been overhauling the database in order to open it to all the non-IBM i applications that need its data.
