title: two triggers on insert of same table
body: <p>Here is one very interesting problem. I am using SQL Server 2008.
  I have two triggers on one common table say 'CommonTable'. one trigger is on update and other one is on insert/update/delete.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>In first trigger "Trigger1", I do the checks/rollback sometime change the new inserted value based on business logic.
  here is sample code</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>-</p>
  
  <pre><code>CREATE TRIGGER [dbo].[Trigger1] ON [dbo].[CommonTable]
  FOR UPDATE
  UPDATE [CommonTable] 
  SET 
      [StatusCode] = 'New Value'
  WHERE 
  [RecId] = 'rec id value'
  </code></pre>
  
  <ul>
  <li>In second trigger "Trigger2", I store the new inserted/deleted/updated value from 'CommonTable' table to another table 'CommonTable_History' for history tracking purpose.
  here is sample code</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>-</p>
  
  <pre><code>CREATE TRIGGER [dbo].[Trigger2] ON [dbo].[CommonTable]
  FOR INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
  
  --based on logic read the value from DELETED or INSERTED table and store in other table.
  
  SELECT @RowData = (SELECT * FROM DELETED AS [CommonTable] WHERE [RecId] = @RowRecId FOR XML AUTO,                       BINARY BASE64 , ELEMENTS)
  
  --and then insert @RowData in 'CommonTable_History' table.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>With the help of 'sp_settriggerorder', I have set the order of execution of these triggers, so first "Trigger1" get executed and then "Trigger2".</p>
  
  <p>Second trigger "Trigger2" works well for insert/delete values. It works fine for new inserted value if new inserted values has not been changed by first trigger "Trigger1".</p>
  
  <p>But if in some cases, inserted values has been changed in "Trigger1". say [StatusCode] = 'New Value' and old values was 'Old Value' then "Trigger2" still store the 'Old Value' instead of 'New Value'.
  Why because "Trigger1" change the value but that value still has not been store in database and before that "Trigger2" get executed on Insert.
  Now my requirement is, here I want to store "New Value".</p>
  
  <p>So I thought, lets make "Trigger2" to use "AFTER" keywords. But "FOR" and "AFTER" behave same could not solve the problem.</p>
  
  <p>Then I thought, lets make "Trigger2" to use "INSTEAD OF" keyword. But "INSTEAD OF" gives following error
  "Cannot CREATE INSTEAD OF DELETE or INSTEAD OF UPDATE TRIGGER. This is  because the table has a FOREIGN KEY with cascading DELETE or UPDATE."</p>
  
  <p>I can not remove FOREIGN KEY with cascading DELETE or UPDATE for table 'CommonTable'.</p>
  
  <p>Please let me know if you people have any other alternate solution.
  -Vikram Gehlot</p>