Triggers ... My opinion is that if you are depending on them, you either don't trust your programmers or you build it wrong.

You say it like that's a bad thing. :-)

There are times when you really don't want to trust programmers. For instance one common use of triggers is for auditing changes. You don't want to be in a position of having a change in your financial data that you can't explain. Depending on your database (I've seen it demonstrated with Oracle), it is possible to set things up so that nobody - including the DBA - can make a change without it being audited. Sure, you can turn auditing off. But the fact that you turned it off will itself get logged.

Usually this would be overkill. But there are situations where you really do need to be able to trust, but verify to this level.

In reply to Re^2: [Semi-OT] Views, Stored Procedures, and Class::DBI by tilly
in thread [Semi-OT] Views, Stored Procedures, and Class::DBI by jgallagher

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