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  1. #1
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    Question

    I would like to archive any records which have been deleted to a backup table. I tried using a trigger to do this:

    CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER archiveClient
    BEFORE DELETE ON Client
    FOR EACH ROW
    BEGIN
    INSERT INTO zClient
    SELECT sysdate, Client.*
    FROM Client;
    COMMIT;
    END archiveClient;

    Here, the backup table zClient has the same fields as Client, but without any constraints. There is one extra field, DateDeleted, which is filled by sysdate as above.

    Unfortunately, I am getting a mutating table error, ORA-06512. Can anyone please suggest the correct way to do this?
    Max Hugen
    Hugen Enterprises Pty Ltd
    www.hugen.com.au

  2. #2
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    Hi
    Try this

    CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER archiveClient
    BEFORE DELETE ON Client
    FOR EACH ROW
    referencing new as new old as old
    BEGIN
    INSERT INTO zClient values (sysdate, ld.column1,ld.column2,....)
    END archiveClient;

    -----mutating error
    this is because u r using Select statement where the table is in transition state(delete is going on)


    Thanks
    Pitamber Soni

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    Thanks

    However, my trigger seemed to compile ok, I don't think that's the problem.... how do I work around the mutating table problem?

    Max Hugen
    Hugen Enterprises Pty Ltd
    www.hugen.com.au

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    That is quite common. Try a statement level trigger instead of a row level trigger.

    Vinit

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    Even if it is compiling OK, it will give the mutating error. You will not achieve your objective of archiving deleted records unless you reference old (record) with a keyword and insert it into the zclient table as explained by Soni.
    My advise is create trigger as given by PSoni and then see if objective is met.

    Raminder Singh

    Oracle Certified DBA: Oracle 8i, 9i


    Mail me at raminderahluwalia@rediffmail.com.

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    Smile

    Hi,

    This is how archiving of deleted data works around here.

    CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER del_trg
    after delete on prod.tbl
    referencing old as old
    for each row
    declare
    sqlerr number;
    begin
    insert into arc.tbl (
    col1,
    col2,
    del_dt)
    values (
    ld.col1,
    ld.col2,
    sysdate);
    end;
    /

    HTH

    Tycho

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    Unhappy

    Hello all, thanks for your comments to date... but I am still doing something wrong? My trigger is:

    CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER "GSUSER"."XBENEFIT" BEFORE DELETE ON "GSUSER"."BENEFIT"
    REFERENCING OLD AS old NEW AS new
    FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
    INSERT INTO xBenefit (
    Benefit,
    SortOrder,
    CreatedUser,
    CreatedDT,
    UpdatedUser,
    UpdatedDT
    )
    VALUES (
    old.Benefit,
    old.SortOrder,
    old.CreatedUser,
    old.CreatedDT,
    old.UpdatedUser,
    old.UpdatedDT
    );
    COMMIT;
    END xClient;

    I'm getting a compile error on this... "Identifier 'OLD.ENEFIT' must be declared." Could anyone suggest what I've done wrong please?

    MTIA
    Max Hugen
    Hugen Enterprises Pty Ltd
    www.hugen.com.au

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    Use semicolon before the OLD.column_name, like

    ....
    VALUES (
    :OLD.Benefit,
    :OLD.SortOrder,
    ....)

    And don't use COMMIT inside your trigger. COMMIT and ROLLBACK can't be used in the trigger, unless you use AUTONOMUS_TRANSACTION pagma.
    Jurij Modic
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