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What is wrong with this trigger? [message #625993]

Fri, 17 October 2014 15:17

wzfoto
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I am trying to create a trigger that updates another table with the current system time when insert/update/delete are performed on ABC_TABLE. When I test it by doing insert into ABC_TABLE, the trigger gets executed and result in an ORA-04098 error code. I ran the update statement inside the trigger and it was fine. I am lost as to why I keep getting invalid trigger error. Does anyone have any ideas on how to debug this?

create or replace trigger log_last_update_1
after insert or update or delete on ABC_TABLE
begin
update LAST_UPDATE set update_time = sysdate where table_name='ABC_TABLE';
end;

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Re: What is wrong with this trigger? [message #625994 is a reply to message #625993]

Fri, 17 October 2014 15:27

BlackSwan
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04098, 00000, "trigger '%s.%s' is invalid and failed re-validation"
// *Cause: A trigger was attempted to be retrieved for execution and was
//         found to be invalid.  This also means that compilation/authorization
//         failed for the trigger.
// *Action: Options are to resolve the compilation/authorization errors,
//         disable the trigger, or drop the trigger.

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Re: What is wrong with this trigger? [message #625995 is a reply to message #625993]

Fri, 17 October 2014 15:28

Michel Cadot
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ORA-04098: trigger '%s.%s' is invalid and failed re-validation
 *Cause: A trigger was attempted to be retrieved for execution and was
         found to be invalid.  This also means that compilation/authorization
         failed for the trigger.
 *Action: Options are to resolve the compilation/authorization errors,
         disable the trigger, or drop the trigger.

Execute
set role none
then the UPDATE
What happens?

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Re: What is wrong with this trigger? [message #626042 is a reply to message #625995]

Mon, 20 October 2014 02:37

cookiemonster
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You can also query user_errors to see what the errors are.

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Re: What is wrong with this trigger? [message #626087 is a reply to message #626042]

Mon, 20 October 2014 08:50

wzfoto
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Registered: October 2014
Location: NYC

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I found out what the problem is. There were some junk statements after my trigger definition. The system incorporated them into the trigger, which is why it was failing. Thanks for the all the help. I found out by querying the user_errors table.

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