Sunday, August 26, 2012

CYCLIC CASCADING in a TRIGGER


This is an undesirable situation where more than one trigger enter into an infinite loop. while creating a trigger we should ensure the such a situtation does not exist.
The below example shows how Trigger's can enter into cyclic cascading.

Let's consider we have two tables 'abc' and 'xyz'. Two triggers are created.
1) The INSERT Trigger, triggerA on table 'abc' issues an UPDATE on table 'xyz'.
2) The UPDATE Trigger, triggerB on table 'xyz' issues an INSERT on table 'abc'.


In such a situation, when there is a row inserted in table 'abc', triggerA fires and will update table 'xyz'.
When the table 'xyz' is updated, triggerB fires and will insert a row in table 'abc'.
This cyclic situation continues and will enter into a infinite loop, which will crash the database.
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