Denis Gobo offers up some good advice on triggers:
Most common mistake people make when first starting writing triggers is that they write it in such a way that it will only work if you insert/update/delete one row at a time. A trigger fires per batch not per row, you have to take this into consideration otherwise your DML statements will blow up. How to do this is explained in this post Coding SQL Server triggers for multi-row operations, there is no point recreating that post here.Another problem that I see is that some people think a trigger is SQL Server’s version of crontab, you will see code that sends email, kicks off jobs, runs stored procedures. This is the wrong approach, a trigger should be lean and mean, it should execute as fast as possible, if you need to do some additional things then dump some data from the trigger into a processing table and then use that table to do your additional tasks. Don’t use triggers as a messaging system either, SQL Server comes with Service Broker, use that instead.
Good reading. There are valid reasons for triggers, and ignoring them altogether is almost as bad as misusing them.