Issues Creating SQL Server triggers using SQuirreL SQL Client

Question

Recently I have been working with a SQL Server database and I was trying to create some triggers for some tables using SQuirreL SQL Client and for some reason I was unable to get rid of the following pesky error message:

"Error: 'CREATE TRIGGER' must be the first statement in a query batch. SQLState: S0001 ErrorCode: 111"

The query I was attempting to execute was the following (I started out with a really simple trigger to make sure the syntax was correct):

CREATE TRIGGER meeting_overlap on adhoc_meeting
FOR INSERT
AS
DECLARE
    @myvar INT

When I attempted to execute my exact same query in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express it executed fine. My question is: has anyone else run into similar problems using SQuirreL SQL Client and if so, what did you do to get rid of this error?

EDIT:

I am using SQuirrel SQL v2.6.8 with the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 2.0 and I am connecting to SQL Server 2005.

Answer 1

I was having the same problem. After some Googling, I found this article:

http://vsingleton.blogspot.com/2009/04/error-create-view-must-be-first.html

In short, wrap exec('') around your create trigger statement. In addition, any single quotes (') you have in the trigger statement need to be changed double single quotes ('').

Answer 2

Usually you get that error when attempting to run multiple statements in the same batch that are not allowed to be anything but the first statement in a batch. You may need a GO in between them. GO is not a SQL command but really a directive to the client tool to separate batches of commands.

Answer 3

I couldn't replicate this on SQuirrel SQL v2.6.8 using v1.2.2 of the jTDS jbdc driver against SQL 2005 SP3 (developer edition).