How to stop or disable Recursive Trigger/Nested Trigger in SQL Server.

A trigger execution may occured another trigger execution or same trigger execution. This trigger called Nested Trigger Or Recursive Trigger. SQL Server allows maximum 32 Level recursion.

Disable Nesting/Recursing Triggers

Method 1:

sp_CONFIGURE 'nested_triggers',0
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO

Method 2:

ALTER DATABASE databasename
SET RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS ON | OFF

Method 3:




Restrict Trigger Nesting to certain level.

Put following script in trigger code. This will stop the trigger recursion after certain levels. In following case it will stop after 5 recursion.

IF ((
SELECT TRIGGER_NESTLEVEL()) > 5 )
RETURN