I have wished for SQL Server BEFORE TRIGGERs for a long time. I have posted to Microsoft Connect (their feedback service) about this a few time. I finally put in a post to which they responded "Thanks to this idea. We understand the requirement and we are putting it into the backlog... If this feature gets more votes it would be reconsidered in future releases." Please check out

https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/3127222/before-trigger-behavior-with-execute-original-statement

and, if you like it, please vote it up.

Sincerely,
Daniel

I definitely voted that bad boy up. That was one of the things that I really liked about Oracle for the short 3 year stint that I had to work with it.

--Jeff Moden

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I just posted a plea and a link to this post on "the thread". I'd love to see "BEFORE Triggers" become a reality instead of those gosh-awful "Instead Of" triggers. I have little love in general for Oracle but this one of those things that Oracle absolutely did right from the git. It would make writing audit triggers a whole lot easier to prevent unnecessary duplication in audit tables, which become some of the biggest tables of them all.

--Jeff Moden

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You misunderstand my dislike for "Instead Of" triggers. As you say, they ARE great for specific purposes. A perfect example is when the target of an insert is actually an updateable view built for one reason or another. Still, you have to control everything there instead of just what you need to control, whatever that may be.

--Jeff Moden

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InterBase had both BEFORE and AFTER Triggers. I liked that as well, and having them in SQL Server would be a great addition.


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