>>Script Language and Platform: PlSql / Oracle
This script creates a procedure in which table names may be passed to create an AFTER UPDATE audit trigger for the table.
INSTRUCTIONS
1.Run this procedure in a plsql editor
2.Set ServerOutPut on
3.Call the procedure with a valid table name
4.Copy and paste the output in an iSQL*Plus session and run to create a trigger.
Author: David Bengert
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE genTriggerCode(
—
–INSTRUCTIONS
–Run this procedure
–Set ServerOutPut on
–Call the procedure with a valid table name
–Copy and paste the output in an iSQL*Plus session and run
— to create a trigger.
—
tbl IN VARCHAR2,
owner IN VARCHAR2 := USER,
proc IN VARCHAR2 := ‘CallMyProc’
)
IS
recType CONSTANT VARCHAR2(100) := tbl || ‘%ROWTYPE’;
cols DBMS_SQL.varchar2s;PROCEDURE genProc(oldNew IN VARCHAR2)
IS
BEGIN
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line( ‘FUNCTION copy_’
|| oldNew
|| ‘ RETURN ‘
|| recType
|| ‘ IS l_return ‘
|| recType
|| ‘; ‘
);
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line(‘BEGIN’);FOR indx IN 1 .. cols.COUNT
LOOP
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line( ‘ l_return.’
|| cols(indx)
|| ‘ := ‘
|| ‘ :’
|| oldNew
|| ‘.’
|| cols(indx)
|| ‘;’
);
END LOOP;DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line(‘RETURN l_return;’);
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line(‘END copy_’ || oldNew || ‘;’);
END genProc;
BEGIN
SELECT LOWER (column_name) column_name
BULK COLLECT INTO cols
FROM all_tab_columns
WHERE table_name = UPPER(tbl) AND owner = UPPER(owner);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER tri_’ || tbl);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘ AFTER UPDATE’);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘ ON ‘ || tbl);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘ FOR EACH ROW’);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘DECLARE’);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘ oldRow ‘ || tbl || ‘%ROWTYPE;’);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘ newRow ‘ || tbl || ‘%ROWTYPE;’);
genProc(‘old’);
genProc(‘new’);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘BEGIN’);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘ oldRow := copy_Old();’);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘ newRow := copy_New();’);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘ –Change the value of proc to a valid procedure’);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘ –and unREM the line below’);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘ –‘ || proc || ‘(oldRow, newRow);’);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘END;’);
END genTriggerCode;
/–Test the new procedure.
–Set MYTABLENAME to any valid table name.
–SET SERVEROUTPUT on;
–EXEC genTriggerCode(‘MYTABLENAME’);
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