This works on SQL Server 2000 and above
IF OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID('{your_trigger}'), 'IsTrigger') = 1
BEGIN
...
END
Note that the naive converse doesn't work reliably:
-- This doesn't work for checking for absense
IF OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID('{your_trigger}'), 'IsTrigger') <> 1
BEGIN
...
END
...because if the object doesn't exist at all, OBJECTPROPERTY
returns NULL
, and NULL
is (of course) not <> 1
(or anything else).
On SQL Server 2005 or later, you could use COALESCE
to deal with that, but if you need to support SQL Server 2000, you'll have to structure your statement to deal with the three possible return values: NULL
(the object doesn't exist at all), 0
(it exists but is not a trigger), or 1
(it's a trigger).