What happens with the trigger when we will drop the table having that trigger?

The trigger would also be destroyed if we will destroy the table with which it is associated. It is called the explicit destroy of a trigger. It can be understood with the help of an example −

Example

Suppose we have a trigger named ‘trigger_before_delete_sample’ on the table named ‘Sample’. Now if we will delete this table then the above trigger associated with this table would also be deleted.

mysql> Show Triggers\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
              Trigger: trigger_before_delete_sample
                Event: DELETE
                Table: sample
            Statement: BEGIN
         SET @count = if (@count IS NULL, 1, (@count+1));
         INSERT INTO sample_rowaffected values (@count);
END
               Timing: BEFORE
              Created: 2017-11-21 12:31:58.70
             sql_mode: ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY,
                       STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,
                       NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,
                       NO_ZERO_DATE,
                       ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,
                       NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,
                       NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION
              Definer: root@localhost
 character_set_client: cp850
 collation_connection: cp850_general_ci
   Database Collation: latin1_swedish_ci
*************************** 2. row ***************************
              Trigger: before_inser_studentage
                Event: INSERT
                Table: student_age
            Statement: IF NEW.age < 0 THEN SET NEW.age = 0;
END IF
               Timing: BEFORE
              Created: 2017-11-21 11:26:15.34
             sql_mode: ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY,
                       STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,
                       NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,
                       NO_ZERO_DATE,
                       ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,
                       NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,
                       NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION
              Definer: root@localhost
 character_set_client: cp850
 collation_connection: cp850_general_ci
   Database Collation: latin1_swedish_ci
2 rows in set (0.01 sec)

The above result set shows that there are two triggers in the database among these there is a trigger that is associated with a table named ‘Sample’. Now with the help of the following statement, we will DROP the table −

mysql> DROP table sample;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.26 sec)

Now with the help of the following statement, we can see that the trigger which was associated with a table named ‘Sample’ is also destroyed.

mysql> Show Triggers\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
              Trigger: before_inser_studentage
                Event: INSERT
                Table: student_age
            Statement: IF NEW.age < 0 THEN SET NEW.age = 0;
END IF
               Timing: BEFORE
              Created: 2017-11-21 11:26:15.34
             sql_mode: ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY,
                       STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,
                       NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,
                       NO_ZERO_DATE,
                       ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,
                       NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,
                       NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION
              Definer: root@localhost
 character_set_client: cp850
 collation_connection: cp850_general_ci
   Database Collation: latin1_swedish_ci
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

Rama Giri

Published on 22-Feb-2018 07:23:12

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