Question

I’m trying to add a simple trigger to a table- the 1st issue i came accross was that this table has text columns – so the for delete, insert, update triggers aren’t going to float. ‘instead of’ does though.

I am now up against the fact that the table has cascades set on it. Do you know if there’s a way to get around that little gem or am I basically fubared?

Answer 1

Create a new table, which everyone uses instead of the cascading table. Then build your “instead of” trigger onto the new table, and update the old table within the trigger.

The old table will cascade as normal, but your new table doesn’t have any cascades.

UPDATE:

You could try adding a view rather that creating another table. You could even exclude those text columns from the view.