Return-Path: Received: from ensim.rackshack.net (root@localhost) by orafaq.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6UJbat17575 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:37:36 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.27.56.213 Received: from www2.fatcity.com (rrcs-west-66-27-56-213.biz.rr.com [66.27.56.213]) by ensim.rackshack.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6UJbLp17540 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:37:33 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by www2.fatcity.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h6UHGsP10163 for oracle-l@orafaq.net; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:16:54 -0700 Received: by fatcity.com (05-Jun-2003/v1.0g-b73/bab) via fatcity.com id 005C7DDC; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:09:33 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:09:33 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: Mladen Gogala Sender: ml-errors@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: Mladen Gogala Subject: Re: ** table triggers Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 73; ListGuru (c) 1996-2003 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You can't. An update statement is what fires the trigger. Trigger cannot see where does the statement come from. May be you should rethink the overall design of the application? On 2003.07.30 13:59, A Joshi wrote: > Hi, > I have a two tables A and B. Both have a field expected_delay_now and when > it gets updated by a user in either table I want update it in corresponding > row in the other table. However when this update is as a result of a trigger > (and not user updated) how do I skip the update thru the trigger??? Thanks > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Mladen Gogala INET: mgogala@adelphia.net Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).