How to deny Delete for a single Row in a Table - sql-server-2008

I use SQL Server 2008.
I need to DENY any delete operations on a specific ROW in a Table.
I would like to know how can implement this feature at DB level.
Please provide a sample of T-SQL. Thanks for your time.

Create a trigger that throws an exception if the deleted row is your specific row.

Use INSTEAD OF DELETE trigger and ROLLBACK TRAN. Here is a good article on this.

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How a trigger on a table works on insert event?

Hypothetically, I am going to develop a trigger that inserts a record to Table A when an insertion made to an Table A.
Therefore, I want to know how the system handles that kind of loophole or it is going to continue as a loop until the system hangs which requires restart and possibly remove the DB.
I'm trying to gather information on almost every DBMS on this issue or loophole.
I can only speak to Oracle, I know nothing of MySQL.
In Oracle, this situation is known as mutation. Oracle will not spiral into an endless loop. It will detect the condition, and raise an ORA-04091 error.
That is:
ORA-04091: table XXXX is mutating, trigger/function may not see it
The standard solution is to define a package with three functions and a package level array. The three functions are as follows:
initialize - this will only zero out the array.
save_row - this will save the id of the current row (uk or pk) into the arrray.
process_rows - this will go through the array, and actually do the trigger action for each row.
Now, define some trigger actions:
statement level BEFORE: call initialize
row level BEFORE or AFTER: call save_row
statement level AFTER: call process_rows
In this way, Oracle can avoid mutation, and your trigger will work.
More details and some sample code can be found here:
https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/ASKTOM.download_file?p_file=6551198119097816936
You can only insert a record in same table if you are using instead of trigger. In all other cases you can only modify the record being inserted.
I hope this answers your quest.
you can create trigger in mysql DBMS.
check below link for create insert trigger syntex
http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/triggers/after_insert.php

SSIS: Insert/Update

I am wondering if there is a specific Insert or Update option in SSIS.
Will I have to do some coding if I want to let the program check if it is an update or insert?
Or can there be an option enabled so it will check itself if the PK exists then update and otherwise insert?
Kind regards
Just one solution
SSIS update insert
better update syntax
If there are more records it will be slow.
I don't know if I uderstand your problem properly. But I think SQL Server MERGE would be very useful here. And it's super-efficent.
More info here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510625.aspx

MySQL: how to prevent deletion?

Once a record is entered in a particular table, I think I don't ever want it to be deleted. The records are there to keep track of things for historical purposes. I'm using MySQL, InnoDB. Is there any way I can protect that table from accidental deletes by the application layer? If so, is this a good approach?
If you can set the permission for your user(s), don't give the delete permission. There're situations where this practice is a "must be" like the tables for statistics purpose. Thus, if your table is used to achieve one of this goal, it's a good approach.
I use a trigger that detects the deletion and does some illegal stuff so the whole operation fails. For example like this:
CREATE TRIGGER protect_delete before delete ON protected_table
FOR EACH ROW UPDATE non_existing_table SET non_existing_column=1;
So when someone will attempt a delete operation - the whole statement will fail. You also might use better names for non_existing_column and non_existing_table.
E.g it is possible to obtain an error message like this:
ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table 'database.delete_restricted_on_tableX'
doesn't exist
EDIT: also it is possible to create even better fail messages, please check here http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2006/08/15/mysql-triggers-how-do-you-abort-an-insert-update-or-delete-with-a-trigger/
One other option is switch to the ARCHIVE engine for historical tables.
This will prevent any DELETE or UPDATE actions on the table, and compress the data. One (major) downside to this approach is that you cannot index the columns on the table.
I think you should implement this logic in your application layer and insert a column where you put a no-delete flag.
Another idea would be to exclude the delete access for the db user
You may want to write a trigger that detects the deletion, then reinserts the record, but there may be some issues with that, so you can also just add a foreign key constraint that will prevent the deletion.
For some discussions on this you can look at: http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/2011/10/mysql-hacks-preventing-deletion-of.html.

keeping the history of table in java [duplicate]

I need the sample program in Java for keeping the history of table if user inserted, updated and deleted on that table. Can anybody help in this?
Thanks in advance.
If you are working with Hibernate you can use Envers to solve this problem.
You have two options for this:
Let the database handle this automatically using triggers. I don't know what database you're using but all of them support triggers that you can use for this.
Write code in your program that does something similar when inserting, updating and deleting a user.
Personally, I prefer the first option. It probably requires less maintenance. There may be multiple places where you update a user, all those places need the code to update the other table. Besides, in the database you have more options for specifying required values and integrity constraints.
Well, we normally have our own history tables which (mostly) look like the original table. Since most of our tables already have the creation date, modification date and the respective users, all we need to do is copy the dataset from the live table to the history table with a creation date of now().
We're using Hibernate so this could be done in an interceptor, but there may be other options as well, e.g. some database trigger executing a script, etc.
How is this a Java question?
This should be moved in Database section.
You need to create a history table. Then create database triggers on the original table for "create or replace trigger before insert or update or delete on table for each row ...."
I think this can be achieved by creating a trigger in the sql-server.
you can create the TRIGGER as follows:
Syntax:
CREATE TRIGGER trigger_name
{BEFORE | AFTER } {INSERT | UPDATE |
DELETE } ON table_name FOR EACH ROW
triggered_statement
you'll have to create 2 triggers one for before the operation is performed and another after the operation is performed.
otherwise it can be achieved through code also but it would be a bit tedious for the code to handle in case of batch processes.
You should try using triggers. You can have a separate table (exact replica of your table of which you need to maintain history) .
This table will then be updated by trigger after every insert/update/delete on your main table.
Then you can write your java code to get these changes from the second history table.
I think you can use the redo log of your underlying database to keep track of the operation performed. Is there any particular reason to go for the program?
You could try creating say a List of the objects from the table (Assuming you have objects for the data). Which will allow you to loop through the list and compare to the current data in the table? You will then be able to see if any changes occurred.
You can even create another list with a object that contains an enumerator that gives you the action (DELETE, UPDATE, CREATE) along with the new data.
Haven't done this before, just a idea.
Like #Ashish mentioned, triggers can be used to insert into a seperate table - this is commonly referred as Audit-Trail table or audit log table.
Below are columns generally defined in such audit trail table : 'Action' (insert,update,delete) , tablename (table into which it was inserted/deleted/updated), key (primary key of that table on need basis) , timestamp (the time at which this action was done)
It is better to audit-log after the entire transaction is through. If not, in case of exception being passed back to code-side, seperate call to update audit tables will be needed. Hope this helps.
If you are talking about db tables you may use either triggers in db or add some extra code within your application - probably using aspects. If you are using JPA you may use entity listeners or perform some extra logic adding some aspect to your DAO object and apply specific aspect to all DAOs which perform CRUD on entities that needs to sustain historical data. If your DAO object is stateless bean you may use Interceptor to achive that in other case use java proxy functionality, cglib or other lib that may provide aspect functionality for you. If you are using Spring instead of EJB you may advise your DAOs within application context config file.
Triggers are not suggestable, when I stored my audit data in file else I didn't use the database...my suggestion is create table "AUDIT" and write java code with help of servlets and store the data in file or DB or another DB also ...

trouble deleting from mysql

I am fairly new to using mysql. I have an application that performs some basic querying. I am also trying to run a simple delete statement -
delete from mydb.mytable
This table is a simple 2 column table with not keys or triggers or anything defined. For some reason, the delete is not being performed. If I run the statement from MySql Workbench in the query window, it works fine. From the code, it does nothing. I am not seeing any error messages. I created a user with select, insert, update and delete rights to the schema. I am able to do the insert fine, but the delete does not seem to be working.
Is there a setting for mysql that I am missing that will not allow me to perform the delete?
Thanks for any thoughts.
Fist of all, check if
you are connected to the right database ;
you are using transaction and forgetting 'commit' ;
the user you use have enough permissions to delete from the table .
As a side notice, if you want to delete all records, you should use truncate instead of delete
Are you using transactions? My first guess is that your code might be issuing a BEGIN TRANSACTION without a COMMIT.
We would have to see some of your code to answer the question.
My guess is that you are not calling commit from your code. You can configure MySQL to auto-commit your queries, but this is usually not what you want.