I've been trying to avoid using a cursor in this particular case just because I dislike the tradeoffs, and it just so happens a process I'm using makes triggers look like the proper course of action anyway.
A stored procedure inserts a record based off of a complicated mix of clauses, using an insert trigger I send an email to the target user telling them to visit a site. This is easy and works fine.
However, another procedure is to run nightly and redistribute all unviewed records. The way I was doing this was to do another insert based on a select on a date field from when it was assigned. To wit:
INSERT INTO Table (ID, User, AssignDate, LastActionDate)
SELECT
ID
,User
,GETDATE() [AssignDate]
,GETDATE() [LastModifiedDate]
FROM Table2
/*snip*/
The trigger works on individual inserts, but the select statement above only works on the last inserted row. Is there a way to get around this behavior? It ruins the whole thing!
Edit (trigger code):
ALTER TRIGGER dbo.Notify
ON dbo.Table
AFTER INSERT
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @EmailSender varchar(50)='Sender Profile'
DECLARE @Identity int
DECLARE @User varchar(20)
DECLARE @Subject varchar(50)
SET @Identity=@@Identity
SELECT @User=User, @Subject='(' + CONVERT(varchar,@Identity) + ')!'
FROM Table
WHERE
idNum=@Identity
exec msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@profile_name=@EmailSender,
@recipients=@User
@subject=@Subject,
@body='//etc'
END
The insert trigger is called once for bulk inserts, but on the trigger you can use the special inserted
table to get all the inserted rows.
So, imagine you have an insert trigger like this one, that logs all the rows inserted into table
create trigger trgInsertTable
on dbo.table
for insert
as
insert tableLog(name)
select name from inserted
With this trigger, when you make a bulk insert on table
, the tableLog
is filled with the same number of rows that were inserted to table
For you specific trigger, since you need to call a stored procedure for each row, you need to use a cursor:
ALTER TRIGGER dbo.Notify
ON dbo.Table
AFTER INSERT
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @EmailSender varchar(50)='Sender Profile'
DECLARE @User varchar(20)
DECLARE @Subject varchar(50)
DECLARE cursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT User, '(' + CONVERT(varchar, Id) + ')!'
FROM inserted
OPEN cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM cursor INTO @User, @Subject
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
exec msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@profile_name=@EmailSender,
@recipients=@User
@subject=@Subject,
@body='//etc'
FETCH NEXT FROM cursor INTO @User, @Subject
END
CLOSE cursor
DEALLOCATE cursor
END