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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:36:22 +0100, "Patrick J."
<patrickREMOVE.jTHIS_at_kneip.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On an Oracle 8.1.7 database, I have created triggers that maintain an
>history of all changes in every tables. But some processes are issuing
>updates on several records without changing data in them, this resulting in
>unnecessary overloading of history tables.
>
>Is there a way in a trigger to compare :old and :new records, without
>comparing each field of the record?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Patrick J.
>
No
Regards
Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Thu Jan 24 2002 - 12:09:11 CST