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Asked: 2026-06-01T07:49:48+00:00

I wish to use sp_start_job to start a job from within an insert trigger

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I wish to use sp_start_job to start a job from within an insert trigger.

The table which the insert trigger is on only has a few inserts a day atm.

The point of doing this is so that the insert trigger doesn’t have to wait for the job to complete – is this correct?

The job sends emails to key people within the company notifying of new data.

Also, what are the drawbacks of this idea?

Does the login/user which is used to insert the data need any special permissions/roles?

Or does the job need to be owned by the login/user?

Does the trigger run with the login/user’s permissions?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    yes, you can see from the output of the procedure that it doesn’t send the email on the fly, it adds it to a queue so it wont lock anything by waiting the email to be sent and then continue with the trigger execution.

    you can see your email log at 

    SELECT * FROM sysmail_log

    another query that may help you is 

    SELECT * FROM sysmail_mailitems
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