SQL Differences between stored procedure and triggers

Question

I\'m having trouble understanding the difference between a stored procedure and a trigger in sql. If someone could be kind enough to explain it to me that would be great.

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Answer 1

A stored procedure is a group of SQL statements that is compiled one time, and then can be executed many times. Triggers are named database objects that are implicitly fired when a triggering event occurs. The trigger action can be run before or after the triggering event. Triggers are similar to stored procedures but differ in the way that they are invoked. A trigger is not called directly by a user, where as a stored procedure is directly called by a user.