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Creating Triggers: Trigger

Triggers are stored database procedures that are implicitly invoked by Oracle when a triggering event occurs, such as a DML statement like INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE on a table. Triggers can be defined to fire before or after these events on the table, view, schema, or database that the event is associated with. The syntax to create a trigger includes specifying the trigger name, the triggering event, the table or view it is associated with, and the PL/SQL block with the logic to execute in response to the event.

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Creating Triggers: Trigger

Triggers are stored database procedures that are implicitly invoked by Oracle when a triggering event occurs, such as a DML statement like INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE on a table. Triggers can be defined to fire before or after these events on the table, view, schema, or database that the event is associated with. The syntax to create a trigger includes specifying the trigger name, the triggering event, the table or view it is associated with, and the PL/SQL block with the logic to execute in response to the event.

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Trigger

Triggers are similar to stored procedures. A trigger stored in the database can include SQL and
PL/SQL or Java statements to run as a unit and can invoke stored procedures. However,
procedures and triggers differ in the way that they are invoked. A procedure is explicitly run by a
user, application, or trigger. Triggers are implicitly fired by Oracle when a triggering event
occurs, no matter which user is connected or which application is being used
You can write triggers that fire whenever one of the following operations occurs:
1

DML statements (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) on a particular table or view, issued by any user
2

DDL statements (CREATE or ALTER primarily) issued either by a particular schema/user or by any
schema/user in the database
3

Database events, such as logon/logoff, errors, or startup/shutdown, also issued either by a


particular schema/user or by any schema/user in the database

Triggers could be defined on the table, view, schema, or database with which the event is
associated.

Creating Triggers
The syntax for creating a trigger is:
CREATE [OR REPLACE ] TRIGGER trigger_name
{BEFORE | AFTER | INSTEAD OF }
{INSERT [OR] | UPDATE [OR] | DELETE}
[OF col_name]
ON table_name
[REFERENCING OLD AS o NEW AS n]
[FOR EACH ROW]
WHEN (condition)
DECLARE
Declaration-statements
BEGIN
Executable-statements
EXCEPTION
Exception-handling-statements

End;

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