>To help reduce the unnecessary running of code in an UPDATE trigger, you can take advantage one of two different functions: UPDATE() (available in SQL Server 2000) or COLUMNS_UPDATED() (available in SQL Server 7.0 and 2000).
Well, ya learn something new every day. And the odd part is that I can't find either function in BOL.
Dan LeClair
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