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SQL programmingYou can use the HCL OneDB™ implementation of the SQL language to develop applications for HCL OneDB™ database servers.
Guide to SQL: SyntaxThe HCL OneDB™ Guide to SQL: Syntax describes the syntax of the statements, data types, expressions, operators, and built-in functions of the HCL OneDB™ dialect of the SQL language.
SQL statementsThis chapter describes the syntax and semantics of SQL statements that are recognized by HCL OneDB™.
CREATE TRIGGER statementUse the CREATE TRIGGER statement to define a trigger on a table. You can also use CREATE TRIGGER to define an INSTEAD OF trigger on a view.
Trigger Modes

Trigger Modes

You can set a trigger mode to enable or disable a trigger when you create it.

Figure 1: Trigger Modes

You can create triggers on tables or on views in ENABLED or DISABLED mode.

When a trigger is created in ENABLED mode, the database server executes the trigger action when the trigger event is encountered. (If you specify no mode when you create a trigger, ENABLED is the default mode.)
When a trigger is created in DISABLED mode, the trigger event does not cause execution of the trigger action. In effect, the database server ignores the trigger and its action, even though the systriggers system catalog table maintains information about the disabled trigger.

You can also use the SET TRIGGERS option of the Database Object Mode statement to set an existing trigger to the ENABLED or DISABLED mode.

After a DISABLED trigger is enabled by the SET TRIGGERS statement, the database server can execute the trigger action when the trigger event is encountered, but the trigger does not perform retroactively. The database server does not attempt to execute the trigger for rows that were selected, inserted, deleted, or updated while the trigger was disabled and before it was enabled.

Warning: Because the behavior of a trigger varies according to its ENABLED or DISABLED mode, be cautious about disabling a trigger. If disabling a trigger will eventually destroy the semantic integrity of the database, do not disable the trigger.