Does a Insert trigger fire when the insert is committed?

Question

I'm curious, does a Insert trigger fire when the insert is committed? If you could point to an article as well that would be great !

Thanks,

Dman780

Answer 1

Its depends of FOR | AFTER

FOR | AFTER

AFTER specifies that the DML trigger is fired only when all operations specified in the triggering SQL statement have executed successfully. All referential cascade actions and constraint checks also must succeed before this trigger fires.

AFTER is the default when FOR is the only keyword specified.

AFTER triggers cannot be defined on views.

For mor information : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189799.aspx

Good luck

Answer 2

To add to Mahfoud's response, an after trigger fires before the an implicit transaction is committed.  A rollback in a trigger will rollback the statement that fired the trigger and abort the entire batch as well.

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Dan Guzman, SQL Server MVP, http://www.dbdelta.com

Answer 3

Its depends of FOR | AFTER

FOR | AFTER

AFTER specifies that the DML trigger is fired only when all operations specified in the triggering SQL statement have executed successfully. All referential cascade actions and constraint checks also must succeed before this trigger fires.

AFTER is the default when FOR is the only keyword specified.

AFTER triggers cannot be defined on views.

For mor information : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189799.aspx