I have not ever worked on triggers in MSSQL 2008. SO I don't have any idea to do it.
I have a game application, I'm keeping track of the no of questions played & total no of questions answered correct. Also Im saving the average time taken for each question played.
Now I want to record the rank depending upon %age of answers correct and If there is a tie we will check the time taken. All I have to do this by using triggers.
Any Help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Answer:
I have a game application, I'm keeping track of the no of questions played & total no of questions answered correct. Also Im saving the average time taken for each question played.
Now I want to record the rank depending upon %age of answers correct and If there is a tie we will check the time taken. All I have to do this by using triggers.
id | playerID | CompetitionID | NoOfCOrrectANswers | NoOfPlayedQuestions | TimeTaken
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 3 203 4 8 8.4
2 56 203 9 18 13
3 67 203 16 45 15
Any Help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Answer:
You probably should not take this road as number of updates will be high. You might add row_number()or rank() function to a query that presents results of a competition.
That being said, if you feel that you absolutely must persist ranking info in a table, add a column
alter table ATable add PlayerRank int
and create a trigger on ATable
create trigger RankingTrigger on ATable
after insert, update, delete
as
-- We don't want queries in a trigger to mess up with "Rows affected"
set nocount on
-- If any of the following columns are mentioned in a query
-- Always true for insert and delete, but we will save updates
-- if we skip processing when columns participating in ranking
-- are not changed
If update (NoOfCOrrectANswers)
OR update(NoOfPlayedQuestions)
OR update(TimeTaken)
begin
-- CTE that returns primary key and rank by competition.
-- I've changed your condition (percent of correct answers)
-- As it would rank players with one correct answer over those
-- who answered 100 questions and got only one wrong. If you
-- want to change it, replace NoOfCOrrectANswers with
-- NoOfCOrrectANswers / NoOfPlayedQuestions
; with theRank as (
select ID, row_number() over (partition by CompetitionID
order by NoOfCOrrectANswers DESC,
TimeTaken DESC) rn
from ATable
-- Only changed competitions
where CompetitionID in
-- Inserted table is available in trigger and OUTPUT clause
-- of insert, update, delete statements.
-- It contains newly added/changed rows
-- We are using it here to filter only changed competitions
-- Similary, Deleted table hold a copy of removed rows for delete
-- and old values for update
(
select CompetitionID
from Inserted
union
select CompetitionID
from Deleted
)
)
update ATable
-- Update to rank from theRank CTE
set PlayerRank = theRank.rn
from ATable
-- All records participation in affected competitions
inner join theRank
on ATable.ID = theRank.ID
-- Only change if really changed
-- This part is very likely not needed. I have never tested
-- to see if it affects performance
and isnull(ATable.PlayerRank, 0) <> theRank.rn
end
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