Trigger to populate name field with uppercased and rtrimmed version of user entry
I wish to create an Oracle insert/update trigger to populate a name field in my table with an uppercased and rtrimmed...
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version of the name supplied by the user. This is the trigger I have that does not work:
create or replace trigger userNameTrigger after insert or update of fname, lname on users for each row begin -- save 'standardized' name ufname = rtrim(upper(fname)); ulname = rtrim(upper(lname)); end; / commit
Can you help?
Write something like this:
create or replace trigger userNameTrigger before insert or update on users for each row begin IF inserting or (UPDATING and (:new.fname <> :old.fname OR :new.lname <> :old.fname)) then -- save 'standardized' name :new.ufname := rtrim(upper(:new.fname)); :new.ulname := rtrim(upper(:new.lname)); END IF; end; /
This should work. Note that commit is forbidden inside the trigger definition, so you should put the commit after it in the following script.
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