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From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Susan Hoddinott <susan@perth.dialix.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Executing SQL commands via triggers without the use of
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Susan Hoddinott wrote:

> Having scoured the relevant documentation I cannot find anything which
> indicates how I simply create a database trigger to insert into a
> second table after insert on a first table, without the use of a
> procedure.  As I do not want return values etc. this seems like
> overkill.  Is it possible to create a trigger which executes SQL
> directly without the need to create a procedure?  If so, what is the
> syntax?

Not really... You'll need to wrap it in a simple function.