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OMG.
I'm working on a SQL course. Not a terribly academic one, just an "intermediate SQL for professional interest" sort of thing.
I've understood conceptually what triggers are for decades. But I've never been a coder, never written one.
I just worked through an exercise in creating an audit table & trigger to populate it, for a database. It's less than 30 lines of entirely readable code.
There are at least 10 "database developers" in my past I want to dig up out of their graves and punch.
HOW MANY YEARS OF MY LIFE HAVE I WASTED on tech support work, working out WTF happened to info because I kept getting told "oh we can't audit that, it's too complex".
Admittedly, I worked on enterprise applications built on top of HUGE databases, so I'm sure it's not at all THIS easy ... but to go to deployment with a product that handles health data and you "can't" somehow audit which doctor deleted an x-ray?
I didn't need another reason to question my self-worth right now.
