Triggers, like stored procedures, can be registered with a data dictionary either using the Advantage Data Architect or programmatically by writing SQL or writing in your development language to the Advantage Client Engine API. Registering triggers programmatically is something you can do if you need to register a trigger with a data dictionary at runtime, but most developers only need to register their triggers at design time. As is the case with so many of the objects you work with in a data dictionary, the Advantage Data Architect is the preferred tool for registering triggers.

Unlike stored procedures, which are invoked by a client, triggers are associated with a specific event for a specific table. As a result, you do not find a TRIGGERS node under your data dictionary node in the Connection Repository of the Advantage Data Architect, like you do with stored procedures. Instead, you find the option to configure triggers on the context menu associated with a particular table under the TABLES node of your data dictionary connection.