Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-10!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DA Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: Row-Trigger question (Oracle 8) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:42:26 -0800 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1100234469.840725@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <987ebcdd.0411110035.2ee89cc6@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <987ebcdd.0411110035.2ee89cc6@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 24 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.misc:114212 Michael Kreitmann wrote: > Hello, > > I've a question about row triggers under oracle. > If I define the trigger "FOR EACH ROW", the trigger will be fired n-times > if the firing statement will hit n records. Is there any unique ID or hash-code > or anything else, that is equal for all of these n executions of this trigger > (and only for these n executions ? - the next statement firing the trigger > must produce a new (unique) ID ...) > Many thanks for your advice! > > Regards > Michael I do not understand your question so I'm just going to guess. If your trigger contains sequence_name.NEXTVAL ... each firing of the trigger will retrieve a new number from the sequence. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)