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“Triggers”
Index:-Implementation of TriggersExampleTypes of Triggers
DML TriggersDDL Triggers
Recursive and Nested TriggersDisabling Trigger, Enabling Triggers,
Modifying Triggers
TriggersTriggers are special types of Stored
Procedures that are ran automatically by the database whenever a certain modification (event) occurs.
The modification statements may include INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE.User cannot fire the trigger explicitly , it
gets fired implicitly on the basis of certain specified event
Not a stand alone object
Example:- If you write a letter to your friend and then drop it in a
mailbox without putting enough postage on the envelope,
you trigger the post office to return the letter to you along
with a friendly reminder that you need to add postage. This
reminder is triggered by the lack of a stamp; otherwise, the
letter would have gone through the mail without any
delays.
Different post office triggers would be invoked if you
provided enough postage but forgot to write your friend’s
address
Types of Triggers:We can create TWO types of triggers:
1) DML (data manipulation language) triggers DML triggers run when insert, update or delete
statements modify data in the specified table or view. Insert : triggers are invoked by insert statement Update: triggers are invoked by update statement Delete : triggers are invoked by delete statement
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Types of Triggers:
2) DDL (data definition language) triggers DDL triggers run when events such as creating,
altering or dropping an object occurs on the server Used for database administration tasks such as
auditing and controlling object access.
Triggers can get fired in two different MODES:
1) For/After Trigger:• It gets fired only after the sql server completes all
actions successfully on a specified table.• Can rollback all the earlier transactions by issuing
ROLLBACK • For example on inserting a row on a table, the trigger
defined on the INSERT operation fires only after the row gets successfully inserted and if the insert fails sql does not execute the trigger.
• 2) Instead of Trigger:• It causes the code present in the trigger to execute
instead of the operation that caused the trigger to fire.
• If we define INSTEAD OF Trigger on the above mentioned table, insert would not happen but the trigger gets fired
For / After Trigger:Insert/update/
delete into/from table
Inserts/ updates/ deletes the value
in the table
Fires the trigger
Inserts the value in the INSERTED /DELETED
table as well
Can be Rolled backUsing ROLLBACK
Executes SQL of
TRIGGER
Instead Of Trigger:
Insert /Update/Delete
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Syntax of Trigger:
CREATE TRIGGER trigger_name ON { table | view } [ WITH ENCRYPTION ] { { {FOR | AFTER | INSTEAD OF }
{ [ INSERT ] [ , ] [ UPDATE ] [ , ] [ DELETE ] } AS sql_statement [...n ] } } CONT……..
DML Trigger:
Arguments:Trigger_name:
Is the name of the trigger.Table | view
Is the table or view on which the trigger is executedWITH ENCRYPTION
Code in the trigger will be encrypted when it is createdAFTER
Specifies that the trigger is fired only when all operations specified in the triggering SQL statement have executed successfully
INSTEAD OFSpecifies that the trigger is executed instead of the
triggering SQL statement
Arguments:{ [DELETE] [,] [INSERT] [,] [UPDATE] }
Are keywords that specify which data modification statements, when attempted against the table or view, activate the trigger.
WITH APPENDSpecifies that an additional trigger of an
existing type should be added.NOT FOR REPLICATION
Indicates that the trigger should not be executed when a replication process modifies the table involved in the trigger
Syntax of Trigger:
CREATE TRIGGER trigger_name ON { ALL SERVER | DATABASE }[ WITH ENCRYPTION ] { { {FOR | AFTER }
{ event_type | event_group } [ ,...n ] AS sql_statement [...n ] } }
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DDL Trigger:
Arguments:DATABASE
If specified, the trigger fires whenever event_type or event_group occurs in the current database.
ALL SERVER If specified, the trigger fires whenever event_type or event_group occurs anywhere in the current server.
event_type Is the name of a Transact-SQL language event that, after execution, causes a DDL trigger to fire. (create, alter, drop)
event_group The DDL trigger fires after execution of any Transact-SQL language event that belongs to event_group.
Event types…..
Create: certificate, assembly, index, function, procedure, role, rule etc……..
Alter: certificate, assembly, index, function, procedure, role, rule etc……..
Drop: certificate, assembly, index, function, procedure, role, rule etc……..
Working /Magic Tables :Triggers have access to two special tables
called :Inserted and deleted.
Insert operation
Delete operation
Update operation
INSERTED DELETED
Each row that was inserted in the table
Each row that was deleted From the table
Has after image of the row updated
Has before image of the row updated
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Deleted table will be Empty
Inserted table will be empty
Recursive and Nested Triggers:Recursive Triggers:
A trigger that cause itself to fire is called recursive trigger.
For example update trigger is created on boat table that modifies a column in boat table, the modification in the trigger causes the trigger to fire again leading to an unending chain of transactions.
For this in sql server by default the RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS option is set off and you must explicitly turn on this option
BOAT table
UPDATE Statement
UPDATE Trigger
Update statement fires the update trigger
Updates the column
Update boat table
Nested Triggers:
COMPANY Table
EMPLOYEETable
UPDATETrigger
UPDATE Trigger
UPDATE Statement
Trigger firing order:
sp_settriggerorder [@triggername =] '<trigger name>',
[@order =] '{FIRST|LAST|NONE}',[@stmttype =] '{INSERT|UPDATE|DELETE}'
Common Use of Trigger:
Referential Integrity. Data Integrity Rules Creating Audit Trails:Functionality similar to a CHECK constraint,
but which works across tables, databases, or even servers.
etc……..
Actions that cannot be performed using triggers:
Database cannot be created, altered, dropped, backed up or restored.
Structural changes cannot be made to table that caused trigger to fire.
Sql server does not support triggers against system objects.
Triggers gets fired only in response to logged operations hence minimally logged operations such as TRUNCATE and WRITETEXT do not cause triggers to fire.
Disabling Triggers:-Sometimes triggers can get in the way of what we are trying to
accomplish. For example, suppose that we wrote complex triggers on a table
to perform a variety of data integrity and validation checks to protect database from incorrect information.
Now suppose that we are given a text file containing several million rows of cleaned data that needs to be inserted into this table.
These triggers will likely get in the way and cause the data load to take a very long time.
Here we can use the DISABLE TRIGGER statement to tell SQL Server 2005 to set one or more triggers: DISABLE TRIGGER Trigger name ON Tablename
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Disabling Triggers:-If you want to disable all triggers for a table
DISABLE TRIGGER ALL ON TABLENA ME
Disables all DDL triggers for the whole database
DISABLE TRIGGER ALL ON DATABASE
Disable all the DDL triggers for the entire server
DISABLE TRIGGER ALL ON ALL SERVERCONT……
Disabling Triggers:-Check whether the trigger is active or not
SELECT name, is_disabled
FROM sys.triggers WHERE name = ‘TRIGGER_NAME’
A value of ‘1’ in disabled column means that the trigger is disabled; a value of ‘0’ means that it is active
Enabling Triggers:-If you want to disable all triggers for a table
ENABLE TRIGGER ALL ON TABLENAME
Disables all DDL triggers for the whole database
ENABLE TRIGGER ALL ON DATABASE
Disable all the DDL triggers for the entire server
ENABLE TRIGGER ALL ON ALL SERVER
Modifying Triggers:-If you need to make a modification to the trigger’s
logic, you can use the ALTER TRIGGER statement.
Altering a trigger often means that you must re-type the code for the entire trigger. For this you can retrieve it by simply running the sp_helptext stored procedure:
Sp_helptext trigger_nameOn the other hand, if you want to rename the
trigger, use the combination ofDROP TRIGGER and CREATE TRIGGER statements
Deleting Triggers:-For a DML trigger, the DROP TRIGGER
statement looks like this:DROP TRIGGER Trigger_name
Getting rid of a DDL trigger for just one database looks like this:
DROP TRIGGER Trigger_name ON DATABASE
DROP TRIGGER statement to remove a DDL trigger for all databases on your server:
DROP TRIGGER Trigger_name ON ALL SERVER
References:www.theparticle.com/cs/bc/dbms/triggers.pdfwww.sql-server-performance.com/articles/dev
/triggers_2000_p6.aspxMicrosoft SQL Server 2005 Implementation
And Maintenance .SQL Server 2005 Bible.
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