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charanmsrit
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I have a need to capture the timestamp when any of the row columns actual changed the last time. I tried defining a table with a timestamp column definition
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| GENERATED BY DEFAULT FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP |
What I found is that the timestamp column is updated every time an UPDATE statement is executed on the row even when there is no changes to any of the column values. Is there a way to define this column so that DB2 updates the timestamp only when the row changes?
p.s: Understand that there are other ways such as TEMPORAL, Triggers etc for capturing audit but due to the application complexity and time restriction, this would be ideal.
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Rohit Umarjikar
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Do you think it’s worth for IBM Developers to now magical identity and compare host values vs DB values for every column and then do change the time stamp? If so then wait till that rolled out.
However, what is that you want to achieve out of it, what’s the end goal? Plus any data modeler will recommend to have time stamp column from day 1 when the table is designed for any inserts/update and programmers use them. Now few places when you can smartly not update when no value change detected program coding but one can skip that and just blunt update. |
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charanmsrit
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rohit, with all due respect I find your response a bit over board. It may be a silly question but I don’t think it deserves such a response with full of attitude, seriously?? I couldn’t find from IBM manuals if there was a way to define a row change time stamp column that actually identify a change in the row data . Thought I may have missed something and decided to throw the question in the forum for help. Anyways have now found from IBM manuals to use search condition on UPDATE statement to bypass the time stamp update when there is no change to any columns.
Thanks for your response by the way. |
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Rohit Umarjikar
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charanmsrit, I don't want to respond to your arguments or observation since that's not why we here for, are we?
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| IBM manuals to use search condition on UPDATE statement to bypass the time stamp update when there is no change to any columns. |
If you get time , explain further to what is this approach ? Are you now changing the application program for this? I thought you don't wanted to. |
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