Issues Creating SQL Server triggers using SQuirreL SQL Client

Question

Recently I have been working with a SQL Server database and I was trying to create some triggers for some tables using SQuirreL SQL Client and for some reason I was unable to ge

Answer 1

I was having the same problem. After some Googling, I found this article:

http://vsingleton.blogspot.com/2009/04/error-create-view-must-be-first.html

In short, wrap exec('') around your create trigger statement. In addition, any single quotes (') you have in the trigger statement need to be changed double single quotes ('').

Answer 2

I couldn't replicate this on SQuirrel SQL v2.6.8 using v1.2.2 of the jTDS jbdc driver against SQL 2005 SP3 (developer edition).

Answer 3

Usually you get that error when attempting to run multiple statements in the same batch that are not allowed to be anything but the first statement in a batch. You may need a GO in between them. GO is not a SQL command but really a directive to the client tool to separate batches of commands.