What is the most portable way to check whether a trigger exists in SQL Server?

Question

I\'m looking for the most portable method to check for existence of a trigger in MS SQL Server. It needs to work on at least SQL Server 2000, 2005 and prefe

Answer 1

Are trigger names forced to be unique in SQL server?

As triggers are by definition applied to a specific table would it not be more efficient to restrict the search to only the table in question?

We have a database with over 30k tables in it all of which have at least one trigger and may have more (bad DB design - quite probably, but it made sense years ago and didn't scale well)

I use

SELECT * FROM sys.triggers 
WHERE [parent_id] = OBJECT_ID(@tableName) 
AND [name] = @triggerName