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I have not used a database trigger in years in the projects of the teams I have worked in, but I have seen them being used by other teams. Back in 2009, it seemed like a heated debate, but I am wo...
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2022-01-30T08:58:30Z (almost 3 years ago)
In the current development context (2020+), is there any reason to use database triggers?
I have not used a database trigger in years in the projects of the teams I have worked in, but I have seen them being used by other teams. Back in 2009, it seemed like [a heated debate](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/460316/are-database-triggers-evil), but I am wondering if they are useful anymore for modern software applications. By modern software application I mean at least the following: - domain-centric as opposed to database-centric - way less business logic in the database - no direct database interaction - e.g. no linked servers or similar used to change data in the database from another application. Use APIs instead - code-first - database changes are almost always dealt with from the application code (e.g. migrations, data seeding) The only valid case where I created a trigger was to track DDL changes since some database objects were being changed without our team knowing it. However, this was not part of the normal development process.