Using SQLite

Name

CREATE TRIGGER — Create a new trigger action

Syntax

Common Usage

CREATE TRIGGER database_name.trigger_name BEFORE INSERT ON table_name FOR EACH ROW
  BEGIN stmt1; stmt2; END;
CREATE TRIGGER access_audit BEFORE UPDATE ON access FOR EACH ROW
  BEGIN
    INSERT INTO audit_trail VALUES ( OLD.level, NEW.level, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP );
  END;

Description

The CREATE TRIGGER command creates a trigger and binds it to a table or view. When the conditions defined by the trigger are met, the trigger will “fire,” automatically executing statements found in the trigger body (the part between BEGIN and END). A table or view may have any number of triggers associated with it, including multiple triggers of the same type.

If the optional TEMP or TEMPORARY keyword is present, a trigger will be created in the temp database. A trigger can also be made temporary by qualifying the trigger name with the database name temp. If the trigger name is qualified with a database name, specifying TEMP or TEMPORARY will result in an error, even if the given database name is temp.

Temporary triggers can be attached to either temporary or standard (nontemporary) tables. A specific table instance can be chosen by qualifying the table name with a database name. In all other cases, the trigger and the table should be in the same database. Either the trigger name or the table name can be qualified with a database name (or both, if they ...