Help with update trigger

Hi all,
I know squat about triggers so was hoping somebody could point me in the
right direction. I wanted to copy an email address field from a salesman
table to a note field in a customer table. Seems easy enough for a one time
update. But I would like to add a trigger to auto-update the customer table
anytime an email address changes in the saleman table or a new salesman
record is added.

Here's my update script (this copies the salesman email address to each of
his customers)
UPDATE CUSTOMERS
SET NOTE_5 = SALESMAN.EMAIL_ADDR
FROM CUSTOMERS INNER JOIN
SALESMAN ON CUSTOMERS.SLSPSN_NO = SALESMAN.SLSPSN_NO

How can I turn this into a trigger for automatic updates?

Thanks for any help.rdraider (rdraider@.sbcglobal.net) writes:
> I know squat about triggers so was hoping somebody could point me in the
> right direction. I wanted to copy an email address field from a
> salesman table to a note field in a customer table. Seems easy enough
> for a one time update. But I would like to add a trigger to auto-update
> the customer table anytime an email address changes in the saleman table
> or a new salesman record is added.
> Here's my update script (this copies the salesman email address to each of
> his customers)
> UPDATE CUSTOMERS
> SET NOTE_5 = SALESMAN.EMAIL_ADDR
> FROM CUSTOMERS INNER JOIN
> SALESMAN ON CUSTOMERS.SLSPSN_NO = SALESMAN.SLSPSN_NO
>
> How can I turn this into a trigger for automatic updates?

CREATE TRIGGER salesman_tri FOR INSERT, UPDATE ON SALESMAN AS
UPDATE CUSTOMERS
SET NOTE_5 = i.EMAIL_ADDR
FROM CUSTOMERS c
JOIN inserted c.SLSPSN_NO = i.SLSPSN_NO

"inserted" is a virtual table that holds the row that were inserted, or
the after-image of the updated rows.

"deleted" is a sister table that holds deleted rows, or the before-image
of the updated rows.

Note that triggers fires once per statement, so these tables can include
many rows.

You can only access these tables directly in a trigger.

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