Sorry - I did in fact mean Instead of (since they can be made to implement like a BEFORE sorta like).
I don't let tables get updated ad-hoc, so I can't say I've thought of that as a big maintenance task. But I suppose it would be ugly if the table changed a lot....
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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?