absolutely right :w00t:

a solution that will work for replication is to add username and reason fields to the table, populate them with your delete proc then select them from DELETED in the trigger.

on the same topic, heres a cool slice I wrote to figure out what field changed to activate the trigger, in case you dont REALLY want to fire triggers generating history when a certain set of fields is updated, as in the case of the darned replication id... (intended to be inserted into the trigger whose action you want to modify based on the field(s) updated)

BEGIN TRANSACTION

declare @NameToCheck varchar(8)

set @NameToCheck = 'val3' --this is the column name to check for singleton update, set to ModifiedDate,

--if we need to check any combination of values, just expand this routine to compensate

declare @checksum int --holds the int value of two raised to (the ordinal position of this column minus one)

declare @ChangeSum int --holds the int value of the COLUMNS_UPDATED varbinary

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--this is the guts of it, as you can see it is only really one line

--generate the checksum

select

@checksum = power(2,colorder-1) --colorder index is 1 based, switch to 0 based

from syscolumns where

id = (select id --this is the column id of the column we want to watch

from sysobjects where

name = (select object_name(parent_obj) --the name of the table to which this trigger is attached

from sysobjects where xtype = 'tr' --the trigger type label

and name = object_name(@@PROCID) --the name of this trigger))

AND name = @NameToCheck --is the column we are watching

--if more than one field needs checked, just do again and add the check sums together... or do some other clever thing...

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--recover the change sum, the value of the bit mask

set @ChangeSum = cast(COLUMNS_UPDATED()as int)

--create meta label for the history record

declare @newmeta varchar(200)

set @newmeta = '@CheckSum=' + cast(@CheckSum as varchar(8)) + ' '

set @newmeta = @newmeta + '@ChangeSum=' + cast(@ChangeSum as varchar(8))

--here we check if our pattern of change occurred

if(@CheckSum = @ChangeSum)

begin

set @newmeta = @newmeta + ' update only in ' + @NameToCheck + ' where we watched'

goto createHistory

end

--otherwise

set @newmeta = @newmeta + ' some other update'

createHistory:

INSERT INTO jonathan1H

( val1, val2, val3, modDate, meta )

SELECT val1, val2, val3, getdate(), @newmeta

FROM deleted

COMMIT TRANSACTION