PL/SQL tutorial 15: DML Trigger With Before Insert, Update and Delete DML Examples

PL/SQL Tutorial 15 explaining DML Trigger with examples such as Before Insert, Update and Delete in Detail.
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[@subhaselvi]

very useful to better understand of triggers !!! thanks for this video:)

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[@imaginativeanu2087]

I have questions regarding trigger working parts , can you explain " select user into v_user from dual " this seems a bit confusing as why we are using dual table as the trigger is working for superheroes table , I might taking it wrong so can you explain it

[@hanmantmane9008]

Same

[@shubhambiswal458]

on each DML operation trigger is executing own statement i.e. just printing the user who did the change.

[@VishalGupta-oh7mb]

@@shubhambiswal458 how to know what is "user" and "dual"

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[@niki6722]

Hi Manish, Thank you for your amazing tutorials, really helping a lot. At my end, Triggers are compiled successfully but on Updating or Inserting Triggers are not working. Is anything additional to be done here???

[@marketingpaathshala3126]

Hi Manish, Please reply asap as i have the same question? and i can see many of us are having the same problem.

[@rahulprasad7400]

@@marketingpaathshala3126 hi please match with this code . May be some issu in your code. create table mytgr(id number,name varchar2(12)); / create or replace trigger mytrg1 after insert or update or delete on mytgr for each row enable begin if inserting then dbms_output.put_line('One row has been inserted on:'||sysdate()); elsif updating then dbms_output.put_line('One record has been updated on :'||sysdate()); elsif deleting then dbms_output.put_line('One record has been deleted on:'||sysdate()); end if; end;

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[@javedabdool1187]

superb video like always.. so actually the message is displayed before the insert is actually performed?

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[@shaheenshaikh6701]

Sir I'm getting error for this syntax of create or replace trigger bi_shero before insert on superhero for each row enable I'm getting invalid trigger syntax whats wrong

[@animalia.shorts]

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[@nayanjain5761]

sir what is dual table? and thanks for this video series really very helpful

[@shriyajoshi6324]

yea , having the same question!

[@chiragsamalia9425]

and which name will be selected from dual table suppose it contains 10 entries.

[@JACKRAIDEN97]

Default table provided by Oracle to write SELECT statements as above, it is a dummy table so you don't need to create a table, just to run a SELECT statement, as SELECT statements cannot run without a table. He accesses user variable via SELECT statement, thus needs some table, oracle provides dual for that purpose. You can use any other table, that will work too.

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Thanks a lot. Please upload the tutorial regarding stored procedures, functions, packages, cursors.

[@varshapathak3427]

You clear the concept very well. Good Work Manish..:)

[@ganialuri560]

Hi Manish, Could you please let me know what is dual here?

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[@srajalsoni9338]

In this tutorial you used a statement "select user into v_user from dual" It means dual is your table name from which v_user value is comming from user column of table.which is HR . But aapne koi bh condition use nahi ke

[@unnamamarkrishna827]

Hi Manish, Thanks for such a great effort for us by making this kind of tutorials and especially blog content. But while i was trying the tigger's example in Oracle developer 11g (followed the syntax from your blog or video), gives me an error. After an Hour research i found that ENABLE is not correct trigger syntax. I have rectified my error by removing the keyword ENABLE from my trigger body. I am not sure this could be Version problem. This is may help some other people who stuck like me.

[@sreeznashrestha8514]

Thank you bro. I was stuck on the same thing as I am using 11g to learn PL/SQL too.

[@krishnasingh-ob6ob]

same here bro answer not given by google also

[@anithas132]

Please Provide tutorials regarding stored procedures and packages.

[@anngrahdhar]

Can you explain me that what is in the given line? I did not understand where the word dual came from SELECT user INTO v_user FROM dual;

[@abhisheklonkar2467]

Please explain this doubt ......

[@triple_a7443]

What is 'dual' from where you are getting the User's Name? Is it 'dual' for every Computer or was that just for your computer?

[@praveenjohnwesley31]

dual is a temporary(dummy) and predefined oracle table.

[@abhivarshney1161]

at 3:45 ,it says u just inserted a line mr. HR.......what is hr ?

[@abhi13456]

Username

[@Adityasingh-kg2cj]

haa

[@deepupandit786]

dual is an exisiting table in oracle db , which has only one row and once column

[@robertbhandari7829]

Some may got 'SYSTEM' instead of 'HR'....it's all your connection is on 'HR' or 'SYSTEM'....they may be also your username.

[@mrigendrapratapsingh7176]

sahej manchanda dual is an inbuilt table in Oracle database which has single row and single column named " dummy" and it contains value " x".

[@popular2752]

What about the first trigger created, the insert trigger? The database would be confused on which to execute, this happened to me

[@8694vicky]

thank you sir for this video series my question have written the same code and my output for triggering script is "Trigger BU_HERO compiled" before update table_name=hero but even after updating table the trigger script is not showing any output why? i have connected to hr

[@darshanamalviya5973]

hi manish, i got this error plz help me to come out "Do not create triggers on objects owned by SYS"

[@linuxtech7063]

select user INTO v_user FROM dual ; what is where did you get dual frorm?

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The DUAL table is a special one-row, one-column table present in Oracle databases by default. It's often used in SQL queries to perform functions where no real table is necessary, like testing expressions or fetching system-level information. So, using SELECT ... FROM DUAL is a way to execute simple queries in Oracle without needing an actual table. If you have any more questions about Oracle SQL or database fundamentals, feel free to ask! 😊🌟

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[@natashasefer168]

Hello, i was just wondering if you had a video on deleting triggers alone? I have to delete a book from the table books as well as deleting all of its copies from table book_copies? Thank you Natasha

[@shipravalecha5419]

Hey Manish.. I have a question on triggers.. in your tutorials on DML Triggers example you mentioned that trigger will be fired after insert or delete or update in the particular table but the keyword you used is before insert/ before update/ before delete. It should be after keyword... Can you please explain

[@mariaspatari1276]

Hi Manish, in this tutorial you didn't say what means that ,, dual" it is another table? and what it content ?Thank you

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[@suvrojotibhunia5627]

Great tutorial explained the topic clearly but facing an issue where I am executing the trigger and it is getting compiled but when I am inserting the data only output is '1 row inserted'. The trigger output is not shown. Please can you help on this?

[@bilalshah3482]

Is this code of triggers are also use in oracle 10g form building triggers??tell me plzzzz....

[@mrvariskhan101]

what is dual you put in select statement

[@souvikdutta3567]

Sir I have a doubt and that is when we use before trigger based upon some triggering events then why all the time the message is printed after the triggering event.... I mean when you are inserted a row then it first shows one row is created and then it shows the message... Please send a solution for my doubt

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[@nehagaikwad9251]

hello sir, i did the examples in this video, i came across a problem. the trigger gets compiled , the row gets inserted but the output is not displayed of v_user variable. if i execute individually then declaration and execution block executes successfully but not with the trigger statement. plz tell me solution. will b waiting for answer

[@Rebellionrider]

In order to see the output returned by a PL/SQL program, we need to set the SERVEROUT ON. We do so by writing SET SERVEROUTPUT ON command right before the PL/SQL code. Check whether you have done that or not?

[@nehagaikwad9251]

did Sir.. It still didn't work

[@8694vicky]

i am facing same issue . how did you fix it?

[@praveenmolleti2074]

Add "Commit" statement after insert, update & delete, then you will see the message from trigger.

[@bombayboys100]

Hi, Triggers were working fine in SQL*PLUS. But lately whenever I try applying even a basic trigger, no trigger works. Not even the basic ones. for eg: SQL> create or replace trigger one_trig 2 before insert on trig_test 3 for each row 4 enable 5 6 declare 7 v_user varchar2(30); 8 begin 9 select user into v_user from dual; 10 dbms_output.put_line('Record Inserted by '||v_user); 11 end; 12 / Trigger created. SQL> insert into trig_test values(5); 1 row created. As you see, even after creating the trigger, the message does not display. Has anyone faced such situation where triggers stopped firing? Please help.

[@time.dealer]

I have the exact same problem. I even opened a completely different window and did everything from the video word by word. And I get the same result ' 1 row inserted' . Nothing else.

[@AshutoshMohanty07]

Same issue here.

[@jainmarygeorge7279]

Akshay Kunder did you install sql plus from oracle e delivery

[@b.jayanagavarmavarma191]

Sir, why we use dual and user in select command??

[@ravishankar0901]

Hello Manish, you have written code like IF INSERTING,ELSIF DELETING,ELSEIF UPDATING ? How come oracle complier knows that INSERTING/DELETING/UPDATING is a condition but not an String value? Expecting a quick response . Thank You

[@varshapathak3427]

Hi Ravi Here is your answer The triggering event of a DML trigger can be composed of multiple triggering statements. When one of them fires the trigger, the trigger can determine which one by using these conditional predicates: Conditional Predicate TRUE if and only if: INSERTING An INSERT statement fired the trigger. UPDATING An UPDATE statement fired the trigger. UPDATING ('column') An UPDATE statement that affected the specified column fired the trigger. DELETING A DELETE statement fired the trigger.

[@historyfreek0111]

Can anyone tell me why he is writing query select USER into v-user from dual, I mean I know the query but is this std. form or do we need to create a table named dual

[@shzozasdo2920]

set serveroutput on create trigger bi_superhero before insert on superhero for each row enable declare v_name varchar2(20); begin select sh_name into v_name from superhero; dbms_output.put_line('you inserted ' || v_name); end; / insert into superhero values('iron man');

[@roadiekartheeku]

in this you explained it will work before update. if so why in output prompt it was showing 1 row updated first not the message. please explain

[@xxxqqq]

Very good! Clear and efficent

[@Suresh-tu2se]

trigger is fires only before the insert records on superheros. this is BEFORE method, so why 1st row is inserted after dbms-output is displayed?

[@vaibhavjadiya8631]

HI Manish, I m unable to understand ... SELECT user INTO v_user FROM dual; please explain

[@anila8186]

hii manish, for me in this video first 2 codes are executed but last code is not executed can you help me for that

[@rahulprasad7400]

Hi Manish , Could you please tell me how to disable the system define trigger as you have created an explicit trigger here which shows both messages like system define message "1 record inserted" and user define message like "One record inserted by HR" ?? Please ..

[@jyotimisal8155]

Is it possible to create DML events on database level trigger for auditing purpose? If yes then pls share the details of it.

[@T1Te12Tes123Test1234]

Why the statements "1 row inserted" is printed before and then the line from trigger is printed. For BEFORE trigger, we should first see the line printed in the trigger.

[@udayabanunagarajan5401]

Hi , thanks for the video sir. PLs help me in clearing my doubt sir. SO as per the trigger code, triggers are executing after DML Statements only right. So how it is before INSert or update or delete. Pls explain that portion. Only after those DML statements, all the triggers were fired. Thank u

[@rahulprasad7400]

hi, there are two main differences between BEFORE and AFTER clause. Let's understand with an example. (For Before clause ) Suppose you are going to ATM machine for money withdrawal then first you will have to choose language then amount after that ATM pin. Suppose you entered your wrong pin then here instead of processing to next step like executing this withdrawal command it will check your ATM pin and amount that you have entered and if both are correct then execute otherwise it will give error based on either ATM pin or valid amount. so you can say that BEFORE clause is used to validate some statement before executing it. and now for AFTER clause. After clause is used when we know that all the statement is correct and ready to go. for example, after checking your ATM pin and amount it will execute after that you will get your money.

[@vignesh0371]

Hi manish , the tutorial of dml trigger concept yours example query's not working for my Clint tool of oracle 10g version . I want to known the reason for that . I'm typed the same query's from your tutorial video of trigger concept. I'm tries all query's about trigger topics even one query has not executed properly, it shown ora - 04079 error(invalid trigger specification), I don't know what to doo on it please let know how to solve it ...

[@prakashdevraj160]

What else can be used in place for each row

[@Sachin-bz9ix]

dbms_output.put_line() is not printing output in dml trigger. However during your previous tutorial it was working fine. I have put set serveroutput on; here as well as in my previous blocks.. however it is not showing any ouput in monitor in my sql developer ver 17.x

[@pavanazmeera6592]

hi manish iam facing an error like cannot create triggers on objects owned by sys what to do? pls reply me

[@Nikhil-jj7xf]

Can you please make one video for trigger so that it will prevent insertion by checking condition

[@akshatapatil6112]

hI Sir i am running a trigger but i am confuse because when i run my query for before insert it is not taking for each row command but for after insert command it taking a command and executing the query why it so....? why for each command is working for after insert command not for Before insert command...

[@19mad92]

I want to update some data in the db by importing a excel sheet. How can i be sure my triggers execute?

[@shalinis6299]

Plz upload the oracle forms and reports sir

[@himanshumittal1095]

Every time I am getting an error ORA-04079: invalid trigger specification.

[@kanikagupta2989]

sir, i am not being able to create trigger as i do not have the privilege to create the same.Can you tell me how can i get the privilege to create it?

[@lehinibusireddy7182]

The blog link is showing page not found

[@grsraja952]

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[@grsraja952]

Thank you so much sir for your valuable reply...

[@saounighosh2230]

It's generating compilation error whenever I'm using declare block . without declare block it's working fine.I'am using 11g express edition.please explore why is it generating error?

[@irshad9341]

Sir can we write (select user from dual) instead of declaring a new variable v_user and then keeping user value in v_user .in working section

[@praveenjohnwesley31]

into statement is must to display the output and thats why we declare a variable and passing it into statement

[@minaseif7051]

i want create mathematics operations after update and delete a row can i do it with trigger

[@Rebellionrider]

yes you can. Everything is possible.

[@joshianurag6211]

I am getting a mutating error. How to solve that.

[@suriyakumar.m4267]

Hi Manish I am getting this kind of errors while creating triggers ORA-04089: cannot create triggers on objects owned by SYS 04089. 00000 - "cannot create triggers on objects owned by SYS" *Cause: An attempt was made to create a trigger on an object owned by SYS. *Action: Do not create triggers on objects owned by SYS. can you please give solution for that

[@rsv5prasad]

before insert/delete/update I am not getting. because trigger messages are displaYING after we insert/delete/updat right, pls expalin me

[@elegeblege1618]

I think so. Because in case that there are some primary keys which you trying to insert (for example), duplicity exception wont allow you to add it and the trigger will fire

[@puneetbhardwaj9011]

What this from dual

[@DavitJibuti]

Hello Manish, first of all thank you for this Videos! I have question: "IF INSERTING THEN" condition does not works in my case ,"ELSEIF" statement could not be recognized by SQL developer App also, I've installed Oracle 11g. is it possible, that database version be a reason of issue?

[@DavitJibuti]

I was writing incorrectly, correct is ELSIF and not ELSEIF this was the reason, sorry for stupid question :)

[@balaji7888]

trigger is complied but it is not firing why?

[@haiderali-qn4cg]

hello sir how we can add a column using triggers

[@rudrapratapsinghsolanki9612]

when i insert a row then trigger fire 4 times and for update it 3 time and delete it fire 2 time SQL> insert into super values ('jai'); you have just insert a row R you have just insert a row R you have just insert a row R you have just insert a row R why?