Re: Are Triggers Really that Bad or ....???

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:16:57 -0400, "Ronnie Yours" <ronnie_yours_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I tried playing around with the idea of reducing the amount of work needed
>to automate the process of creating triggers for all the tables and this is
>what i came up with
>
>select 'Create or replace Trigger '||table_name||'_Trigger BEFORE INSERT OR
>UPDATE ON '||
>table_name||' for each row BEGIN IF inserting THEN
>:NEW.created_date:=sysdate; :NEW.created_by:=user; END IF; If Updating
>then :NEW.updated_date:=sysdate; :NEW.updated_by:=user; end if; END; /'
>from dba_tab_columns where column_name='CREATED_DATE'
>
>I spool the above query into a file and execute it.
>
>It would work fine , but the only problem is the / at the end of the
>procedure it creates. The / should appear on the next line and I am not able
>to do so. Is there a way I can force a carriage return before the /.
>
>If i manually edit the output of the above query so that the / appears on
>the next line of each result set, it works great.
>
>Please suggest
>
>Thanks
>Ronnie
>

simply use 'END;'||chr(10)||'/'
That should do it

Hth

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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