Skip to Main Content

SQL & PL/SQL

Announcement

For appeals, questions and feedback about Oracle Forums, please email oracle-forums-moderators_us@oracle.com. Technical questions should be asked in the appropriate category. Thank you!

Database trigger - PL/SQL: ORA-00984: column not allowed here

953957Aug 25 2012 — edited Aug 25 2012
I am trying to create a trigger that will update an employee audit table when a row is changed. Using a sequence number to assign a unique identifier to each row as it is created. Need to capture the user ID, date of the change, and the action (update), plus the before image of the row.
CREATE SEQUENCE emp_audit_seq START WITH 10; 		     
Create table emp (
   empno       NUMBER(4)	 Primary Key,
   ename       VARCHAR2(10),
   job            VARCHAR2(9),
   mgr           NUMBER(4),
   hiredate     DATE,
   sal             NUMBER(7,2),
   comm        NUMBER(7,2),
   deptno       NUMBER(2));
CREATE TABLE emp_audit   (
     audit_uid		NUMBER(15) 	Primary Key,
     change_date		DATE,
     change_user		VARCHAR2(30),
     action		        CHAR(1),
     empno		        NUMBER(4),
     ename                  VARCHAR2(10),		
     job			VARCHAR2(9),
     mgr			NUMBER(4),
     hiredate		DATE,
     sal			NUMBER(7,2),
     comm		        NUMBER(7,2),
     deptno		        NUMBER(2));
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER trig_emp_audit
  BEFORE UPDATE ON emp
  FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
  INSERT INTO emp_audit
    VALUES(emp_audit_seq.nextval, change_date, change_user, action, :old.empno, :old.ename, :old.job, :old.mgr, :old.hiredate, :old.sal, :old.comm, deptno);
END;
/

Warning: Trigger created with compilation errors.

SQL> show errors
Errors for TRIGGER TRIG_EMP_AUDIT:

LINE/COL ERROR
-------- -----------------------------------------------
2/3      PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
3/149    PL/SQL: ORA-00984: column not allowed here
Can anyone assist in helping me find what I am doing wrong with the trigger?

Edited by: LostNoob on Aug 25, 2012 2:24 PM
This post has been answered by JustinCave on Aug 25 2012
Jump to Answer
Comments
Locked Post
New comments cannot be posted to this locked post.
Post Details
Locked on Sep 22 2012
Added on Aug 25 2012
5 comments
8,357 views