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    Personally my problem with triggers (in particular, does not apply to stored procedures) is that they try to "guess" what "business action" happened from how the data on the DB is manipulated. If you modify the PRICE column in a "ARTICLES" table, then you don't really know why that is. Is the user just correcting a mistyped value? Is that a mark-down? Is it a special offer that only lasts for a day? Triggers have to guess all that. Commented Mar 12, 2012 at 10:43