Question

I have lost a trigger. I know it is active, since when I try to change a field, it restores its value back, and from the SQL Server Management Studio I can see that when I execute the query, an extra one is executing (the trigger one).

I tried SELECT * FROM sys.triggers WHERE 1 = 1 but it does not return anything. Also, I know the name of the trigger, but when I try to ALTERit returns an error saying that

the name of the object ‘myTrigger’ is not valid.

And if I try to DROP TRIGGER myTrigger ON DATABASE

Trigger ‘myTrigger’ can not be removed because it does not exists, or the user has not enough priviledges.

Answer 1

Ok, as Lieven said, I was not querying the right database… This is odd, since the query had the DB defined on it

ALTER TRIGGER myTrigger
ON [DB].[dbo].[table]

But the upper select of the SQL Server Management Studio was pointing to other DB…

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Edit:
I have been investigating a little bit (trying to clean my image), and I found a weird behaviour on SQL Server Management Studio.
If you execute a query like:

UPDATE [DB].[dbo].[table] SET column = 'value' WHERE column2 = 'foo'

It executes the query in the right DB. No matter what DB is pointed by the upper select.

But, if you try to do the same, with a trigger, you must have the upper select pointing the right DB, or you will face the same problems I had.