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Re: Trigger question

On 20/03/06, Lapeyre, Francis <FLAPEYRE@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One thing to check, when you added the *UPDATE trigger did you use
> TRGUPDCND(*ALWAYS) (the default)?  I always (sic) change this parameter
> to *CHANGE - that way, just "looking" at the record without updating it
will
> not force the trigger to fire.

Just "looking" can't cause the update trigger to fire, but updating the
record without changing the contents can. This can be useful on occasion, as
you can force the trigger to fire by using interactive SQL to update a field
to be equal to itself.

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Dave...

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