SQL Server 2008 - Help writing simple INSERT Trigger

Question

This is with Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

I\'ve got 2 tables, Employee and EmployeeResult and I\'m trying to write a simple INSERT trigger on EmployeeResult that does

Answer 1

You want to take advantage of the inserted logical table that is available in the context of a trigger. It matches the schema for the table that is being inserted to and includes the row(s) that will be inserted (in an update trigger you have access to the inserted and deleted logical tables which represent the the new and original data respectively.)

So to insert Employee / Department pairs that do not currently exist you might try something like the following.

CREATE TRIGGER trig_Update_Employee
ON [EmployeeResult]
FOR INSERT
AS
Begin
    Insert into Employee (Name, Department) 
    Select Distinct i.Name, i.Department 
    from Inserted i
    Left Join Employee e
    on i.Name = e.Name and i.Department = e.Department
    where e.Name is null
End