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JimS-Indy

Posted Friday, March 08, 2013 11:13 AM

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I have a timesheet master table and a related timesheet detail table. Each detail row could trigger need for an override approval of the whole timesheet. Currently, I have an ASP.Net application that checks for 1 or more detail rows needing override approval, and updates the master column "RequiresOV" (int). I'm thinking of setting a trigger on the detail table to do the update on the master automatically anytime a row requiring override permission is added, updated, or deleted. It would simply add up all the detail rows requiring Override, and update the master appropriately.

Alternatively, I could make the column in the master a computed column that does roughly the same thing.

Override rows are uncommon, say 5% of timesheets contain an override row. The average timesheet has maybe 300 rows, and there are maybe a dozen timesheets submitted per week. Some are submitted in bulk (uploaded from a workbook...) and some are hand-entered in an ASP.Net app, one row at a time.

What do you guys think?

Jim

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Sergiy

Posted Sunday, March 10, 2013 9:54 PM

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I would not update the master table but set up another "queue" table for approval requests.
Once a "details" row is updates the coresponding key value is inserted by the trigger into the "queue" table, unless it's not already there:
INSERT INTO Queue (MasterKey)
SELECT MasterKey FROM Details D
WHERE NOT EXISTS(select * from Queue Q where Q.MasterKey = D.MasterKey)

Once Approval process is completed for any particular MaskterKey it's just removed from the Queue table.

You may wish to add a "time stamp" column to the queue table with default GETDATE().
Then it will be easy to process requests in order they've been submitted.

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