If statement in AFTER DELETE trigger not working - sql

Question

I have a trigger which I would like to do something if a certain condition is met.
If a user causes the system to remove a row from a security table, and that row happens to fit particular criteria, I want to run a stored proc. The problem that I'm running into is that the trigger behaves as though the if statement's criteria is not met. I know that the criteria is being met, because I tried piping the variable in question into a table, and the value I came up with was correct.
If I remove the IF statement, the procedure runs (though indiscriminately...it runs as expected, regardless of the value of the personorgroup field in the deleted table, which is not what I want it to do.)
Here is the trigger:
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
alter TRIGGER dbo.SecurityPersonRemoval
ON dbo.[security]
AFTER delete
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;
declare #person int
declare #thing int
select #person = personorgroup from deleted
select #thing = thing from deleted
if #person = '37671721'
exec docsadm.ethicalwall #thing
END
GO
Ideas?

Answer 1

Your statement probably fails because "deleted" can contain multiple records. Assigning the value of the select to a scalar will only return the first personID and the rest will be ignored. If you must call docsamd.ehticalwall for each person deleted, you could use a cursor:
declare #personId int,
#thingId int,
#fetchStatus int
declare myDeletedPeople cursor for select personorgroup, thing from deleted readonly
open myDeletedPeople
fetch myDeletedPeople into #personId, #thingId
select #fetchStatus = ##FETCH_STATUS
while (#fetchStatus=0)
begin
if(#personId = '37671721')
begin
exec docsadm.ethicalwall #thingId
end
fetch myDeletedPeople into #personId, #thingId
select #fetchStatus = ##FETCH_STATUS
end
close myDeletedPeople
deallocate myDeletedPeople