Find Which Tables Have Triggers in SQL Server 2005/ 2008

If you want to quickly list down the tables having triggers in your database, here's how to do so:

USE [YourDB]

SELECT

OBJECT_NAME(parent_id) AS TableName,

name AS TriggerName,

create_date AS CreationDate,

modify_date AS ModifyDate

FROM sys.triggers

I ran the query on the PUBS database and got the following results:

TableName TriggerName      CreationDate              ModifyDate

employee  employee_insupd 2009-01-23 14:16:35.680 2009-01-23 14:16:35.680

About The Author

Suprotim Agarwal, MCSD, MCAD, MCDBA, MCSE, is the founder of DotNetCurry, DNC Magazine for Developers, SQLServerCurry and DevCurry. He has also authored a couple of books 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls and a new one recently at The Absolutely Awesome jQuery CookBook.

Suprotim has received the prestigous Microsoft MVP award for nine times in a row now. In a professional capacity, he is the CEO of A2Z Knowledge Visuals Pvt Ltd, a digital group that represents premium web sites and digital publications comprising of Professional web, windows, mobile and cloud developers, technical managers, and architects.

Get in touch with him on Twitter @suprotimagarwal, LinkedIn or befriend him on Facebook