>>Hi,
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>>I am thinking if inside the INSTEAD OF DELETE trigger I should have a code to check if the tabled
deleted has any records. To me it does not seem logical if the DELETE trigger is fired and it has no records in the Deleted table. But what do I know. Is there a case I should foresee that the Deleted would have no records?
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>>TIA.
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>This is a very common test in the beginning of the trigger I have in all my DELETE triggers:
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>IF NOT EXISTS (select 1 from Deleted)
> return
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>It may happen when delete didn't delete any rows.
This (the code you wrote above) is almost exactly what I have. But I am thinking as to how and what kind of message to send back to the UI tier to let know that nothing was deleted. Usually when user selects to delete, a record in the Cursor Adapter cursor is deleted. Then VFP calls TableUpdate(). So I need to find a good strategy to let the UI know that something failed.
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