Creating and using triggers in an Oracle database involves defining a stored procedure that is automatically executed in response to certain events, such as insert, update, or delete operations on a table.
To create a trigger, you use the CREATE TRIGGER statement, which specifies the trigger name, the table it is associated with, the event that activates the trigger, and the PL/SQL code that is executed when the trigger is fired.
Here's a basic example of creating a trigger in Oracle:
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER my_trigger
AFTER INSERT ON employees
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
INSERT INTO audit_table (employee_id, action)
VALUES (:NEW.employee_id, 'Inserted');
END;
In this example, my_trigger is the name of the trigger, employees is the table the trigger is associated with, and AFTER INSERT specifies that the trigger should fire after an insert operation on the employees table. The FOR EACH ROW clause indicates that the trigger should execute once for each row affected by the insert operation. The PL/SQL code inside the BEGIN and END block is executed when the trigger is fired, inserting a record into the audit_table to log the action.
To use the trigger, you simply perform the operation that activates it. In this case, if you insert a new record into the employees table:
INSERT INTO employees (employee_id, first_name, last_name)
VALUES (1, 'John', 'Doe');
The trigger will automatically execute, and a corresponding record will be inserted into the audit_table.
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