Re: trigger advice needed

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

What happens if the change is made *AFTER?  Or, if there are two programs, one 
*BEFORE, that sets a flag announcing the need to run the 2nd program at *AFTER?

In <199810241445.KAA14580@lucas.emi.com>, on 10/24/98 
   at 10:42 AM, "David Prowak" <prowakd@emi.com> said:

>Hi,

>I have a MASTR_FILE that has a trigger attached to it.  It's a *BEFORE,
>*UPDATE trigger, allowing repeated changes.   Under certain
>circumstances,  when the master record is changed, I then need to make
>changes to 4 other records from the MASTR_FILE.

>So what happens is that when I go to change the 1st of the 4 records, 
>the trigger program is called again, and I get an error because of the
>recursive call.

>How should I handle this situation?  I really want to define the business
>rules for
>this application in the DB, but I'm stuck.

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