I want to copy the contents of a column into another column in the same table. Therefore, I created this trigger:
ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[kennscht_copy_to_prodverpt]
ON [dbo].[Stammdaten]
AFTER INSERT
AS
UPDATE Stammdaten
SET PRODVERPT = (SELECT KENNSCHT FROM INSERTED)
WHERE SNR = (SELECT SNR FROM INSERTED);
But when I use an UPDATE on the table to update KENNSCHT
to a different value, PRODVERPT
is not updated as well. Now, you could argue that is because the trigger is on AFTER INSERT
and not AFTER UPDATE
, but when I change it so it's triggered by UPDATE
and INSERT
, whenever I update any row, I get an error message from SQL Server
Cannot update row because it would make the row not unique or update multiple rows (2 rows) [sic]
What is going on here? Either the trigger doesn't do anything, or it's messing up the whole table, making it un-updateable.
Update: I also tried the following trigger:
UPDATE s
SET s.PRODVERPT = i.KENNSCHT
FROM Stammdaten s
INNER JOIN INSERTED i ON i.SNR = s.SNR;
But it has exactly the same behaviour. If I use only AFTER INSERT
, nothing changes and if I use AFTER INSERT, UPDATE
I get the error message above.
Update 2: There are no multiple rows in the table, I already checked that because I thought it might be connected to the issue.