Question

I want to do some calculations when my table data is changed. However, I am updating my table manually and copy pasting about 3000 rows in once. That makes my trigger work 3000 times, but I want it to do the trigger only once.

Is there a way to do that ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If by ‘manually’ you mean you are copying and pasting into some User Interface tool (like an Access dataGrid) or something like that, then the tool may be issuing one insert statement per row, and in that case you are out of luck the database trigger will be executed once per insert statement. As other answers have mentioned, if you can insert the rows directly into the database, using a single insert statement, then the trigger will only fire once.