I've been banging my head against a wall for the better part of a week. I've been studying SQL (T-SQL) for a few weeks now, and I've hit a snag.
I'm building a database that will store client data for a company. The tables in the DB are normalized, so I have multiple tables that are linked together using Foreign Key Constraints.
Microsoft Access will be used to interface with the database (as a frontend). To make things simpler, I created a view that joins all the required tables together so that end-users can query information without hassle.
The problem I've run into involves INSERTING information into this view. From my understanding, since I have multiple tables in my view, I have to use a trigger with an INSTEAD OF INSERT
statement. I've created the trigger; however, I'm unsure how to work with the ID
columns in the tables (these act as keys).
I have a MemberBasicInformation
table that contains the client's DOB, Name, Gender, etc AND their MemberID. This ID
is an IDENTITY
column in the table, so it is generated automatically. The problem that I'm running into is that because the identity is automatically generated, I'm unable to grab the identity value that is generated after the insert into the MemberBasicInformation
table and insert it into the other related tables. When I attempt to do so, I end up with a Foreign Key constraint violations.
I've tried using @@Identity
and Scope_Identity()
to no avail. I've listed my view and trigger to give you an idea of how things are set up. I would greatly appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction. I'm truly at a loss.
MEMBER
view:
CREATE VIEW [dbo].[Member]
AS
SELECT
dbo.MemberBasic.MemberId, dbo.MemberBasic.FirstName,
dbo.MemberBasic.MiddleInitial, dbo.MemberBasic.LastName,
dbo.MemberBasic.FullName, dbo.MemberBasic.DateOfBirth,
dbo.Gender.Name AS Gender, dbo.MemberBasic.Address,
dbo.MemberBasic.Address2, dbo.MemberBasic.City,
dbo.MemberBasic.State, dbo.MemberBasic.ZipCode,
dbo.MemberBasic.PhoneNumber,
dbo.MemberBasic.SocialSecurityNumber,
dbo.MemberBasic.DriversLicense,
dbo.MemberBasic.EmployerIdentificationNumber,
dbo.MemberBasic.Notes,
dbo.FieldRep.Name AS FieldRepName,
dbo.MemberDetail.DateAssigned AS FieldRepDateAssigned,
dbo.MemberDetail.CPReceivedOn, dbo.MemberDetail.CredentialedOn,
dbo.MemberEligibility.IsActive, dbo.ICO.Name AS ICO,
dbo.MemberEligibility.StartDate AS EligibilityStartDate,
dbo.MemberEligibility.EndDate AS EligibilityEndDate,
dbo.MemberWorkerCompDetail.ExpirationDate AS WorkerCompExpirationDate,
dbo.MemberWorkerCompDetail.AuditDate AS WorkerCompAuditDate,
dbo.WorkerCompTier.Name AS WorkerCompTier,
dbo.MemberAttachment.AttachmentId,
dbo.MemberAttachment.Data AS AttachmentData
FROM
dbo.MemberAttachment
INNER JOIN
dbo.MemberBasic ON dbo.MemberAttachment.MemberId = dbo.MemberBasic.MemberId
INNER JOIN
dbo.MemberCaregiverAssignment ON dbo.MemberAttachment.MemberId = dbo.MemberCaregiverAssignment.MemberId
INNER JOIN
dbo.MemberDetail ON dbo.MemberBasic.MemberId = dbo.MemberDetail.MemberId
INNER JOIN
dbo.MemberEligibility ON dbo.MemberAttachment.MemberId = dbo.MemberEligibility.MemberId
INNER JOIN
dbo.MemberWorkerCompDetail ON dbo.MemberAttachment.MemberId = dbo.MemberWorkerCompDetail.MemberId
INNER JOIN
dbo.Gender ON dbo.MemberBasic.GenderId = dbo.Gender.GenderId
INNER JOIN
dbo.FieldRep ON dbo.MemberDetail.FieldRepId = dbo.FieldRep.FieldRepId
INNER JOIN
dbo.ICO ON dbo.MemberEligibility.ICOId = dbo.ICO.ICOId
INNER JOIN
dbo.WorkerCompTier ON dbo.MemberWorkerCompDetail.TierId = dbo.WorkerCompTier.TierId
GO
MEMBER
trigger:
ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[InsertNewMember]
ON [dbo].[Member]
INSTEAD OF INSERT
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;
INSERT INTO MemberBasic (FirstName, MiddleInitial, LastName, GenderId, DateOfBirth, Address, Address2, City, State, ZipCode, PhoneNumber, SocialSecurityNumber, DriversLicense, EmployerIdentificationNumber, Notes)
SELECT
FirstName, MiddleInitial, LastName, GenderId, DateOfBirth,
Address, Address2, City, State, ZipCode, PhoneNumber,
SocialSecurityNumber, DriversLicense,
EmployerIdentificationNumber, Notes
FROM
inserted
INNER JOIN
Gender ON Gender.Name = Gender;
INSERT INTO MemberDetail (MemberId, FieldRepId, DateAssigned, CPReceivedOn, CredentialedOn)
SELECT
MemberId, FieldRep.FieldRepId, FieldRepDateAssigned,
CPReceivedOn, CredentialedOn
FROM
inserted
INNER JOIN
FieldRep ON FieldRep.Name = FieldRepName;
INSERT INTO MemberEligibility (MemberId, ICOId, StartDate, EndDate)
SELECT
MemberId, ICOId, EligibilityStartDate, EligibilityEndDate
FROM
inserted
INNER JOIN
ICO ON ICO.Name = ICO;
INSERT INTO MemberWorkerCompDetail (MemberId, AuditDate, ExpirationDate, TierId)
SELECT
MemberId, WorkerCompAuditDate, WorkerCompExpirationDate, TierId
FROM
inserted
INNER JOIN
WorkerCompTier ON WorkerCompTier.Name = WorkerCompTier;
INSERT INTO MemberAttachment (MemberId, Data)
SELECT MemberId, AttachmentData
FROM Member
END