Re: Oracle Trigger

Mark C. Stock wrote:

> Can you elaborate on why the generalization that dynamic SQL is required for
> creating triggers?
>
> -- mcs

DDL can not be performed using PL/SQL ... for example you can't even do this:

BEGIN
    TRUNCATE TABLE my_table;
END;
/

What you must do is:

BEGIN
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'TRUNCATE TABLE my_table'; END;
/

Same rule applies to creating triggers.

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