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Lesson 08

"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

-Norman Cousins (1912-1990)

Examples of creating different triggers...

 

An example of creating a DML trigger:

This example shows that Oracle fires the "schema.check_salary" trigger

 

whenever a UPDATE or INSERT statement affects the "SAL" column on the "EMP" table, if and only if its value is more than 6000 dollars. The trigger write a message into "audit_table" that at such day a user

inserted or update such column.

 

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER check_salary

BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE OF sal ON emp

REFERENCING OLD AS old NEW AS new

FOR EACH ROW

WHEN (new.sal > 6000)

DECLARE

-- no variables...

BEGIN

IF INSERTING

THEN

INSERT INTO audit_table

VALUES

(USER || ' inserted employee number:'

|| :new.empno || ' ' || ' at:' || sysdate);

-- no commit needed...

ELSIF UPDATING

THEN

INSERT INTO audit_table

VALUES

(USER || ' updated employee number:'

|| :new.empno || ' ' || ' at:' || sysdate);

-- no commit needed...

END IF;

EXCEPTION

WHEN OTHERS THEN

RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (

num => -20000,

msg => 'Cannot drop object');

END check_salary;

/

 

An example of creating a DDL Trigger:

This example shows that a dba is monitoring or checking when and who creates or drops an object in the database.

 

CREATE TRIGGER check_who_create_objects

AFTER CREATE OR DROP ON SCHEMA

BEGIN

INSERT INTO audit_table

VALUES

(USER || ' created an object on: '

|| sysdate);

EXCEPTION

WHEN OTHERS THEN

RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (

num => -20000,

msg => 'Cannot drop object');

END;

/

 

An example of creating a Database Event Trigger:

This example shows that a dba is monitoring who and when shuts down a database.

 

CREATE TRIGGER check_who_shutdown_database

BEFORE SHUTDOWN ON DATABASE

BEGIN

INSERT INTO audit_table

VALUES

(USER || ' shutdown the database on: '

|| sysdate);

EXCEPTION

WHEN OTHERS THEN

RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (

num => -20000,

msg => 'Cannot drop object');

END;

/

 

An example of creating an "INSTEAD OF" trigger:

This example shows that how you can use an "INSTEAD OF" triger.

 

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW dept_employees AS

SELECT dname, ename

FROM emp, dept

WHERE dept.deptno = emp.deptno

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Normally this view would not be updatable, because the primary key of the department (dept) table (deptno) is not unique in the result set of the join view.

To make this view updatable, you should create an INSTEAD OF trigger on the view to process INSERT statements directed to the view.

 

CREATE SEQUENCE seq_deptno

START WITH 60

INCREMENT BY 10;

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER insert_dept_emp_info

INSTEAD OF INSERT ON dept_employees

DECLARE

duplicate_info EXCEPTION;

PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT (duplicate_info, -00001);

BEGIN

INSERT INTO dept

VALUES

(seq_deptno.nextval,:new.dname,'No location yet');

EXCEPTION

WHEN duplicate_info THEN

RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (

num=> -20107,

msg=> 'Duplicate department number!');

END insert_dept_emp_info;

/

 

An example of creating a SCHEMA trigger:

Creating a SCHEMA Trigger: Example

The following example creates a BEFORE statement trigger on the sample schema hr. When a user connected as hr attempts to drop a database object, Oracle fires the trigger before dropping the object:

 

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER drop_trigger

BEFORE DROP ON scott.SCHEMA

BEGIN

INSERT INTO audit_table

VALUES

(USER || ' dropped its table on: '

|| sysdate);

EXCEPTION

WHEN OTHERS THEN

RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (

num => -20000,

msg => 'Cannot drop object');

END;

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