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Re: How to Determine if Table Modified

From: Wouter Verhelst <wouter_at_rock.dezevensprong.local>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 22:43:23 GMT
Message-ID: <fiWr5.49163$DJ4.510630@afrodite.telenet-ops.be>

In article <L9Wr5.14716$K4.579990_at_newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,

        "George cova" <nojunkmail_at_earthlink.net> writes:
> How can I determined if an Oracle table was modified. In other words, I
> would like to know if a record was entered, deleted,or modified. Is there
> something in the Dictionary that I can query that will tell me like the last
> dateTime table modified? Or maybe some other field or value that counts the
> number of times table was modified?

I believe Oracle does not do this. However, you can create a database trigger that will update a date-field (perhaps in another table) to implement this by yourself.
Beware, though, that your trigger won't trigger itself, or you'll have an infinite loop.

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