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Asked: 2026-06-16T20:53:13+00:00

my experience with triggers is that it does something after an update,insert or delete.

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my experience with triggers is that it does something after an update,insert or delete. But is it possible to create a trigger to update a record automatically when its date is today? for example, I have a table with 4 columns.

   StartDate         EndDate         Active          Expired 
---------------------------------------------------------------
   2013-01-03      2013-01-05          True           False

this is one record, what i want is to create a trigger that will update the Active column to False and Expired to True of this record when its EndDate is = today’s date (GETDATE()). How do i do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    No, as far as I know, you can’t use a trigger for this situation.
    Triggers are executed, when data/records change.
    In your case, the data is not changing, only time is passing.

    Look for a ‘SQL job’ to accomplish this task.

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