Question

I am new to triggers and want to create a trigger on an update of a column and update another table with that value.

I have table1 with a year column and if the application updates that year column I need to update table 2 with the year the same year.

ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[trig_UpdateAnnualYear]
   ON  [dbo].[table1]
   AFTER UPDATE
AS 

if (UPDATE (intAnnualYear))   
BEGIN
    -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
    -- interfering with SELECT statements.
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    -- Insert statements for trigger here

    Update table2 set AnnualYear = intAnnualYear where table2.ID = table1.ID
END

Answer 1

You don’t reference table1 inside the trigger. Use the inserted pseudo table to get the “after” values. Also remember that an update can affect multiple rows.

So replace your current update statement with

UPDATE table2
SET    table2.annualyear = inserted.intannualyear
FROM   table2
       JOIN inserted
         ON table2.id = inserted.id