On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > I have used triggers to keep audit-logs of changes to certain columns in
> a table
> Another good use for triggers is to maintain customer balance..EG: An
> INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE involving a customer payment
> (or in the case of banks (deposit or withdrawals) would automatically
> maintain the balance in the customer master record.
>
> Another scenario is if you want to put a (check) constraint on your table
that refers to other rows or tables.  You can't actually do that, and need
to use a trigger instead.

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