Question

I need to delete a trigger in SQL Server. Seems like it should be simple enough, but because there is a thing called a “delete trigger”, a trigger that is invoked upon deletion, it seems impossible to find resources on how to actually delete an already existing trigger.

Answer 1

DROP TRIGGER:

Removes one or more triggers from the current database…

You can remove a trigger by dropping it or by dropping the trigger table. When a table is dropped, all associated triggers are also dropped. When a trigger is dropped, information about the trigger is removed from the sysobjects and syscomments system tables.

Use DROP TRIGGER and CREATE TRIGGER to rename a trigger. Use ALTER TRIGGER to change the definition of a trigger…