Executing Triggers
Triggers are very much like stored procedures in that you must define them to store them in the database. It is also true that like a stored procedure, triggers are not executed when you create them. However, the difference between stored procedures and triggers comes in when they are executed. You control when a stored procedure is executed, whereas the SQL Server controls when a trigger is executed. To see how this works, we will execute an UPDATE statement on the Employees table for which we created a trigger in the previous section. The following UPDATE statement will make a minor change to the Employees table:
Update Employees Set City = 'New york' Where City = 'Seattle'
Results:
2 rows modified (This is the trigger ...
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