Question

I’m trying to create a trigger on a table. My requirement is to create trigger only when the table exists.

e.g.

if(table exists)
        begin
             create trigger on the table 
        end 

After googling, I found that create trigger should be first command in the batch.
That means I can not use the if or any other thing in the current batch.

Please, help me out!

Answer 1

You can use

IF(OBJECT_ID('YourTable','U') IS NOT NULL)
    EXEC('CREATE TRIGGER ....')

You will need to escape any single quotes in the trigger body by doubling them up.