MSSQL Trigger Pros and Cons

To help you use Triggers effectively, I will explain the pros and cons of Triggers.

What are the pros and cons of Triggers?

MSSQL Trigger Advantages.

• Triggers can easily create security audits when accessing a database.
• If you understand the principles of Triggers, you can perform many functions with simple coding.
• Triggers provide functions that procedures do not provide, and procedures can also be used within Triggers.
• Triggers are used when you need to check the validity of data inserted or updated in bulk in a program.
• Triggers can be used to implement referential integrity throughout the database.
• Triggers can be used to implement data referential integrity and enforce business rules. - Triggers are useful when you want to find incorrect data based on specific conditions when data is entered, updated, or deleted.
• Using CLR Triggers, you can use external code as triggers.
• MSSQL Triggers can be nested up to 32 levels.
• Although not used often, MSSQL Server allows recursive triggers.

Disadvantages of MSSQL Triggers.

• The biggest disadvantage of Triggers is that they can cause performance degradation of the database server. - Since Triggers are part of a transaction, they may remain locked while the work is in progress, which may cause server failure.
• If there are many nested Triggers, debugging and troubleshooting become very difficult, making maintenance impossible.
• It is recommended not to use Triggers on undocumented servers.