I have a table in my Oracle database. The table is used as a messaging queue. Sender process writes to it and the receiver process reads from it. I want to update the inserted messages under certain conditions before receiver reads it. If I set a trigger to "UPDATE ROW AFTER INSERT", when exactly will Oracle run it? Will Oracle handle the trigger as the first thing after insert? To be clear, will Oracle run the trigger before the receiver reads the inserted message?
You want to change the data to be inserted in a before row trigger. See for an explanation of the difference of before and after triggers this question:
difference before and after trigger in oracle
The reader will only be able to see any data after the sender process has committed the changes.
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I've a job which runs with multiple instances i.e. the code base for all instances is same, but each instance works on set of data allocated to it so as to achieve parallelism and better throughput for the application.
These jobs use global temporary table for working through the data as there are multiple complex operations performed before final output is computed.
In case of failure, the transaction is rolled back (as it should), but with this I'm also losing the data in gtt.
Is there a way that the records in gtt can be copied over to another permanent table while rolling back the transaction.
I know it sounds weird, but this is a practical problem I'm facing.
I need to somehow store data in session table in case of failure of any sql, while rolling back the transaction as one of the sql has failed.
Thanks.
Hm, maybe something like this:
create a permanent table which will hold GTT data in case of failure
create an autonomous transaction procedure which would insert into permanent select * from gtt and commit
in exception handler section call that procedure and then rollback
The only way is printing the required data before your rollback.
You can use UTL_FILE to store data in the file. Later, you can use external table concept of oracle to retrieve data in the table.
Cheers!!
I'm new to oracle and I saw Oracle triggers can trigger some action after an update or insert is done on oracle table.
Is it possible to trigger a SAS program after every update or insert on Oracle table.
There's a few different ways to do this but a problem like this is an example of the saying "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should".
So sure, your trigger can be fired on update or insert and that can call a stored procedure in a package which can use the oracle host command to call an operating system command which can call SAS.
Here are some questions:
do you really want to install SAS on the same machine as your Oracle database?
do you really want every transaction that inserts or updates to have to wait until the host command completes? What if SAS is down? Do you want the transaction to complete or.....?
do you really want the account that runs the database to have privileges to start up or send information to other executables? Think security risks.
if an insert does one record the action is clear. What if an update affects a thousand records? What message do you want to send to SAS? One thousand update statements? One update statement?
There are better ways to do this but a complete answer needs more details from you as to the end goal and business logic involved. Some ways I have used include:
trigger inserts data into an Oracle advanced queue. At predetermined intervals take the changes off the queue and write them to a flat file. Write a file watcher to look for the files and send the info to SAS.
write a Java program to take the changes and ship them
use the APEX web service and expose the changes as a series of JSON or REST packets.
Can anyone suggest a good event pattern design or framework for changes in table in oracle.
Changes are not just the based on the column value change,but also the business driven logic .All the logging should be driven by some event setup.
At the end we track the changes and drive the business logic based on the changes .
I might be talking too high level,sorry for that :)
Assume TableA needs to be tracked for ColumnA.
Create AUDIT_TRAIL Table with columns TABLENAME, COLUMNNAME, OLDVALUE,NEWVALUE, DATEANDTIME, PK_SEQ
Create a Trigger to poll TableA for any change in ColumnA, and insert them into AUDIT_TRAIL (PK_SEQ should be a Oracle Sequence Number, DATEANDTIME should be from sysdate)
Something like this for trigger
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER trg_table_audit
before insert or update or delete on tableA REFERENCING NEW AS NEW OLD AS OLD
for each row
begin
if inserting or deleting then
insert into audittrail (....)
Reading the fine manual: Using Triggers to Write Audit Data to a Separate Table:
You can use triggers to supplement the built-in auditing features of Oracle Database. The trigger that you create records user actions to a separate database table. When an activity fires the trigger, the trigger records the action in this table. Triggers are useful when you want to record customized information such as before-and-after changes to a table.
Reading even more the fine manual: PL/SQL Triggers:
A trigger is like a stored procedure that Oracle Database invokes automatically whenever a specified event occurs.
On top of that you can build a setup engine that turns triggers on and off. The "business logic" can later read the data recorded by the triggers.
I assume you're not interested in auditing. For the details see e.g. Verifying Security Access with Auditing.
How about you start with using TRIGGERS? And then from there, you could call procedures/functions from a package body for tracking the changes on the table/s.
If a trigger is already in function what will be the effect if i will replace a small part of it ,so many records are getting inserted in table A continuously in which the trigger is applied.
Trigger X is running in table A,
total records are getting insterted per minute are 1000
If i have replaced the trigger what will be the Impact of It for those service who are accesing the table.
Thanks in advance
A CREATE TRIGGER DDL should have no impact on your running DML transactions. Exclusive locks are not required on the table in order to add the trigger.
A CREATE OR REPLACE DDL is slightly different. It has to change an existing object. If the trigger is actively firing, the new trigger will try to lock the trigger object in the library cache before altering it. No impact on the table.
I generally observe that triggers execute immediately.
If you have tested your trigger, you should have no issues. If the trigger is correct, it will go into effect, and the impact shall be according to the logic that you've written in the trigger. The act of creating the trigger is not of concern, but the correctness of the trigger code is. So test it well.
Any transactions underway at the time you create the trigger will finish without firing the trigger.
Any future transactions will fire the trigger.
I created the Employee table which contains EmpNo,EName,EDesignation as its fields.Also i created the 3 Triggers namely Trigger_1,Trigger_2 and Trigger_3.All the Triggers are Statement level triggers and fired after the update done in the table.Now i want the following orders in which the triggers are going to fired when the update statement is executed.
The Order is
Trigger_3,
Trigger_1,
Trigger_2
Can anyone tell me the way to fire the trigger events in userdefined way?I m using Oracle 9i
Trigger Evaluation Order
Quote from Oracle documentation:
Although any trigger can run a
sequence of operations either in-line
or by calling procedures, using
multiple triggers of the same type
enhances database administration by
permitting the modular installation of
applications that have triggers on the
same tables.
Oracle Database executes all triggers
of the same type before executing
triggers of a different type. If you
have multiple triggers of the same
type on a single table, then Oracle
Database chooses an arbitrary order to
execute these triggers.
Each subsequent trigger sees the
changes made by the previously fired
triggers. Each trigger can see the old
and new values. The old values are the
original values, and the new values
are the current values, as set by the
most recently fired UPDATE or INSERT
trigger.
To ensure that multiple triggered
actions occur in a specific order, you
must consolidate these actions into a
single trigger (for example, by having
the trigger call a series of
procedures).
see also http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14251/adfns_triggers.htm
Have one trigger with the contents of the three.
If you cannot, for reasons for modularization, reusability..., create three stored procedures and call these one by one in the single trigger.
Upgrade to 11g and you can define trigger execution order