Creating an INSTEAD OF Trigger: Example
In this example, an oe.order_info view is created to display information about customers and their orders:
CREATE VIEW order_info AS
SELECT c.customer_id, c.cust_last_name, c.cust_first_name,
o.order_id, o.order_date, o.order_status
FROM customers c, orders o
WHERE c.customer_id = o.customer_id;
Normally this view would not be updatable, because the primary key of the orders table (order_id) is not unique in the result set of the join view. To make this view updatable, create an INSTEAD OF trigger on the view to process INSERT statements directed to the view (the PL/SQL trigger implementation is shown in italics):
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER order_info_insert
INSTEAD OF INSERT ON order_info
DECLARE
duplicate_info EXCEPTION;
PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT (duplicate_info, -00001);
BEGIN
INSERT INTO customers
(customer_id, cust_last_name, cust_first_name)
VALUES (
:new.customer_id,
:new.cust_last_name,
:new.cust_first_name);
INSERT INTO orders (order_id, order_date, customer_id)
VALUES (
:new.order_id,
:new.order_date,
:new.customer_id);
EXCEPTION
WHEN duplicate_info THEN
RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (
num=> -20107,
msg=> 'Duplicate customer or order ID');
END order_info_insert;
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