SQL Server : trigger how to read value for Insert, Update, Delete

Question

I have the trigger in one table and would like to read UserId value when a row is inserted, updated or deleted. How to do that? The code below does not work, I get

Answer 1

Please note that inserted, deleted means the same thing as inserted CROSS JOIN deleted and gives every combination of every row. I doubt this is what you want.

Something like this may help get you started...

SELECT
  CASE WHEN inserted.primaryKey IS NULL THEN 'This is a delete'
       WHEN  deleted.primaryKey IS NULL THEN 'This is an insert'
                                        ELSE 'This is an update'
  END  as Action,
  *
FROM
  inserted
FULL OUTER JOIN
  deleted
    ON inserted.primaryKey = deleted.primaryKey

Depending on what you want to do, you then reference the table you are interested in with inserted.userID or deleted.userID, etc.

Finally, be aware that inserted and deleted are tables and can (and do) contain more than one record.

If you insert 10 records at once, the inserted table will contain ALL 10 records. The same applies to deletes and the deleted table. And both tables in the case of an update.

EDIT Examplee Trigger after OPs edit.

ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[UpdateUserCreditsLeft] 
  ON  [dbo].[Order]
  AFTER INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE
AS 
BEGIN

  -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
  -- interfering with SELECT statements.
  SET NOCOUNT ON;

  UPDATE
    User
  SET
    CreditsLeft = CASE WHEN inserted.UserID IS NULL THEN 
                       WHEN  deleted.UserID IS NULL THEN 
                                                    ELSE 
                  END
  FROM
    User
  INNER JOIN
    (
      inserted
    FULL OUTER JOIN
      deleted
        ON inserted.UserID = deleted.UserID  -- This assumes UserID is the PK on UpdateUserCreditsLeft
    )
      ON User.UserID = COALESCE(inserted.UserID, deleted.UserID)

END

If the PrimaryKey of UpdateUserCreditsLeft is something other than UserID, use that in the FULL OUTER JOIN instead.