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Thread: Trigger Help!

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Mar 2001
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    Hi guys,

    I need to create a trigger that throws an error for duplicate items:

    For example, I have a table called table1 that has two colums:
    fld1, fld2... where fld2 is a NULL colum. I need to write a trigger that determines before an insert or update it has to check column fld2 and throw an error if trying to insert or update a duplicate value:

    CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER SomeJob_TRIG
    BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON table1
    FOR EACH ROW

    BEGIN

    SELECT fld2
    INTO :new.v_fld2
    FROM table1
    WHERE fld2 IS NOT NULL;

    .
    .
    .
    .

    END SomeJob_TRIG;
    /


    Any help would greate be appreciated.

    Thanks,
    - Gary

  2. #2
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    could you put a unique constraint on fld2?

  3. #3
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    No, I can not, because it may contain NULLs. I need to only evaluate on valid data.

    - Gary

  4. #4
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    Hey

    u can't do this..

    if ld. is null then
    raise
    else

    end if;

    Exception when then


    Vijays
    Vijay.s

  5. #5
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    unique constraint allows nulls - no problem. Only primary key and not null prevent nulls.

  6. #6
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    That did it! Apparently, Oracle handles NULLs differently than SQL Server.

    Thanks guys,
    - Gary

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