SQL Server triggers fire once regardless of the number of rows involved in the command. It will fire once for one row, five rows, or zero rows. Please keep this in mind. All triggers must be capable of handling multiple rows or throwing and error if multiple rows are affected.

Within a trigger, SQL Server will create two tables in memory: Inserted and Deleted. The Inserted table will contain a copy of the rows after the data modifiecation has occurred. The Deleted table will contain a copy of the rows before the data modification has occurred.

Your query would probably look like:

UPDATE Reports
SET Reports.ReportCreatedDate = getdate()
Where reports.id in (
select id from inserted)

-Mike

>Given a painfully simple trigger as follows: How do you get the row firing the trigger for the where clause? RowThatCausedTheTriggerToFire is an elusive prey beast.... :)
>

>CREATE TRIGGER PutDate ON dbo.Reports
>after INSERT
>AS
>UPDATE Reports
>SET Reports.ReportCreatedDate = getdate()
>Where {RowThatCausedTheTriggerToFire}
>
>

>My Humble thanks in advance,