I took the liberty of rewriting your trigger for you. Just a hint, when posting a question like this, include the table create statements if you can. It makes writing the answer code easier (and in most cases correct).
Remember that in triggers you have the inserted and the deleted tables. You can join them with any other tables in the database, so you don't have to do select statements to get the values. This also makes the trigger handle multiple inserts / updates. Remember that trigger in SQL Server one get executed once for the transaction. So in order to update multiple rows you have to use a LOOP, CURSOR, or know how to write some AWESOME SQL ;). I also remember that UPDATE can use the FROM operator to update multiple rows. Thus your trigger can be rewritten into just one little UPDATE statemenet. How cute and compact. :P CREATE TRIGGER dbo.MyTest ON dbo.UserTime FOR INSERT AS UPDATE ProjectCosts SET InternalCost = ProjectCosts.InternalCost + (UR.UserRate * i.ActualHours), ActualHours = ProjectCosts.ActualHours + i.ActualHours FROM Orders INNER JOIN inserted i ON Orders.OrderID = i.OrderID INNER JOIN UserRates UR ON i.UserID = UR.UserID -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 7:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: SQL Triggers A little rusty at the triggers I see, but here is what I got: CREATE TRIGGER dbo.MyTest ON dbo.UserTime AFTER INSERT AS DECLARE @UserTimeProjID Int , @OrderProjID Int, @InternalCostAdd Int,@ActualHours Int Select @UserTimeProjID, @OrderProjID, @InternalCostAdd,@ActualHours ( SELECT UT.ProjectID, Orders.ProjectID, UR.UserRate * UT.ActualHours , UT.ActualHours FROM Orders INNER JOIN UserTime UT ON Orders.OrderID = UT.OrderID INNER JOIN UserRates UR ON UT.UserID = UR.UserID AND UT.UserTimeID = @@IDENTITY ) UPDATE ProjectCosts SET InternalCost = ProjectCosts.InternalCost + @InternalCostAdd, ActualHours = ProjectCosts.ActualHours + @ActualHours WHERE ProjectID = @UserTimeProjID OR ProjectID = @OrderProjID go I am not sure if the @@identity works for the inserted row and if my select statement is correct. Any pointers? Robert Bailey Software Engineer 813-230-9967 \\ mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.recruitmax.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:189872 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54