I am curious about how the INSTEAD OF clause works in the TRIGGER statement.

If I had a table in which I were trying to prevent duplicates on a name field, and were using an INSTEAD OF clause in it for INSERT, UPDATE, and I was then doing for example, an INSERT statement to set off the trigger, does this mean that the INSERT statement would never actually be used at all, and that everything I'd need to do would have to be contained within the Trigger itself?

Cecil, in general, that's correct. One might debate that there are other means to do this, but yes, that works.

Another example of an INSTEAD OF trigger...suppose that when someone wants to DELETE, you actually want to simply mark the row with a "DeleteFlag". So "instead of" the delete, you update the row and set the DeleteFlag to true.


Different subject....that trigger code from the other night...did that wind up working?