Row-Level Triggers

By Hansen Muhile and Alain Ramos

 Definition
 Row-level triggers fires once for each row
affected by the triggering event such as
INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE.
 Row-level triggers are useful for data-related
activities such as data auditing and data
validation.
 Syntax
 To create a new row-level trigger, you use the CREATE TRIGGER
statement with the FOR EACH ROW clause.
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER trigger_name
BEFORE | AFTER
INSERT OR DELETE OR UPDATE OF column1,
column2, …
ON table_name
Color Meaning
FOR EACH ROW
REFERENCING OLD AS old_name Blue Necessary
NEW AS new_name Red Type
WHEN (condition) Orange Optional
DECLARE
…
BEGIN
…
END;
/
 Characteristics
 Check if the current event is INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE
using the INSERTING or DELETING or UPDATING.
 A BEFORE row-level trigger can modify the new column
values, but an AFTER row-level trigger cannot.
 You can access the old and new column values using the
following syntax.
 :OLD.column_name
 :NEW.column_name
 Example
 Creating a customers table.
This column contains the
credit limit of a customer
 Example
 Creating Trigger for customer_credit_limit
When a new credit is
greater or equals than 1000

If a new credit is greater or

equals than the double of
old credit it doesn't be
updated in the table
 Example
 Testing trigger Inserting data for the
example

Updating table with

a new credit.
2500 < 2*2000

Updating table with a

new credit.
3000>=2*1000
 Example
 Output

The first update statement

works because 2500<4000

The second update statement

doesn't works because
3000>=2000
Thank you