SQL Server triggers - order of execution

Question

Does anyone know how SQL Server determines the order triggers (of same type, i.e. before triggers) are executed. And is there any way of changing this so that I can specify

Answer 1

Use sp_Settriggerorder stored procedure, you can define the execution order of the trigger.

sp_settriggerorder [ @triggername = ] ‘[ triggerschema. ] triggername’
, [ @order = ] ‘value’
, [ @stmttype = ] ’statement_type’
[ , [ @namespace = ] { ‘DATABASE’ | ‘SERVER’ | NULL } ]

The second parameter, “order” can take three values which means that it can take into account up-to three triggers.

1. First – Trigger is fired first
2. Last - Trigger is fired last
3. None – Trigger is fired in random order.