Opening a Trigger

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You can open a trigger to view or edit the text of an existing trigger that is stored in your database. Triggers are scripted in Transact-SQL for Microsoft^® SQL Server™ databases or PL/SQL for Oracle databases.

A trigger is differentiated from the database table columns in Data View by the trigger icon .

To open a trigger

1. In Data View, expand the Tables folder.
   
   
2. Expand the table whose trigger you want to open.
   
   
3. Right-click the name of the trigger that you want to open and choose Open from the shortcut menu.

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   Double-click the name of the trigger that you want to open.

   

The trigger is opened in a source code editor that you can use to edit the SQL statements. For details about editing the Transact-SQL syntax of a trigger for your database, search for "CREATE TRIGGER Statement" in your database documentation.