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Asynchronous Triggers in SQL Server 2005/2008

I have triggers that manipulate and insert a lot of data into a Change tracking table for audit purposes on every insert, update and delete.

This trigger does its job very well, by using it we are able to log the desired oldvalues/newvalues as per the business requirements for every transaction.

However in some cases where the source table has a lot columns, it can take up to 30 seconds for the transaction to complete which is unacceptable.

Is there a way to make the trigger run asynchronously? Any examples.

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Answer

You can’t make the trigger run asynchronously, but you could have the trigger synchronously send a message to a SQL Service Broker queue. The queue can then be processed asynchronously by a stored procedure.

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