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Today's question comes from Irete P.:

Hi, I'd like to know the last date all of the tables in a database were updated. Is there some stored procedure I can use? Thank You, Irete P.

Irete,

Sort of. The sysobjects table contains the creation date of the table - a column called crdate, I believe.

But I'm guessing that you'd like to know the last date/time the *data* in the table was updated. Sorry, you'll have to do this manually by creating an INSERT/UPDATE trigger on the table that modifies the "last updated" date in another table - probably some sort of master "last updated" table that you've created.

You could also add a "last updated" column to every table and have a trigger update that. Then you could select the max value out of the column.

Sean

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