How to insert a deleted row in another table

Question

I have a table users . I want whenever I (or a script) deletes one of this users, that the deleted row is inserted into another user_deleted table.

The users_deleted tables is exactly the same as the users table + a datetime column with NOW() for the deletion time.

For that, i've found the MySQL trigger functionality very handy, sadly it doesn't work like excepted.

Thing is, when there is a deletion on the users , in users_delete a blank new row is inserted.

What may be the problem here?

Answer 1

You should be selecting old values that should be inserted to another table inside the trigger code.

INSERT INTO users_deleted (datetime, id, name)
VALUES (NOW(), OLD.id, OLD.name);