LMeyer
LMeyer

Reputation: 2631

Dynamic SQL and ORA-00911

I have a database named Tamaris, which contains a table User. I created a trigger to create a new user in database each time a row is inserted in my User table. Here's the PL/SQL code :

CREATE OR REPLACE
TRIGGER UTILISATEUR_CREATE_USER_TRG 
AFTER INSERT ON UTILISATEUR 
FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
  nom_compte NVARCHAR2(20 CHAR);
  str_create VARCHAR2(300);
  str_grant VARCHAR(250);
  type_compte NUMBER;
  unauthorized_exception EXCEPTION;
BEGIN

  CASE
    WHEN :new.idtypecompte = 1 THEN
      nom_compte := :new.pseudoutilisateur;
      type_compte := 1;
    WHEN :new.idtypecompte = 2 THEN
      nom_compte := 'AC_'|| :new.pseudoutilisateur;
      type_compte := 2;
    WHEN :new.idtypecompte = 3 THEN
      RAISE unauthorized_exception;
  END CASE;

  str_create := 'CREATE USER '|| nom_compte ||' IDENTIFIED BY '|| :new.passwordutilisateur ||' DEFAULT TABLESPACE tamaris TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp QUOTA UNLIMITED ON tamaris;' ;
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE str_create;



  IF type_compte = 1 THEN
    str_grant := 'GRANT Base_User TO '|| nom_compte ||';' ;
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE str_grant;
  ELSE
    str_grant := 'GRANT Adv_User TO '|| nom_compte ||';' ;
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE str_grant;
  END IF;

EXCEPTION
  WHEN unauthorized_exception THEN
      dbms_output.put_line('Impossible de créer un autre gestionnaire');
END;

When I insert a row in table User, the trigger fires and I get this :

Error during saving of modifications on "TAMARIS"."UTILISATEUR" : Line 3 : ORA-00911: Invalid character ORA-06512: at "TAMARIS.UTILISATEUR_CREATE_USER_TRG", Line 22 ORA-04088: Error in the execution of 'TAMARIS.UTILISATEUR_CREATE_USER_TRG' ORA-06512: at Line 1

For the record, the request in str_create is working outside the trigger with random parameter (only if wrapped with BEGIN; END;). Therefore I tried :

str_create := 'BEGIN CREATE USER '|| nom_compte ||' IDENTIFIED BY '|| :new.passwordutilisateur ||' DEFAULT TABLESPACE tamaris TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp QUOTA UNLIMITED ON tamaris; END;' ;

Still not working. I would appreciate any inputs on this, thanks.

EDIT :

Content of my procedure as suggested:

CREATE OR REPLACE
PROCEDURE CREATE_USER_IN_DB(p_username IN NVARCHAR2, p_password IN UTILISATEUR.passwordutilisateur%type, p_type IN NUMBER ) AS 
BEGIN
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CREATE USER '|| p_username ||' IDENTIFIED BY '|| p_password ||' DEFAULT TABLESPACE tamaris 
  TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp QUOTA UNLIMITED ON tamaris';

  IF p_type = 1 THEN
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'GRANT Base_User TO '|| p_username;
  ELSE
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'GRANT Adv_User TO '|| p_username;
  END IF;
END CREATE_USER_IN_DB;

EDIT2 :

How I call the procedure outside of trigger :

BEGIN 
CREATE_USER_IN_DB('whatever','quickpass', 2); 
END;

I get

ORA-00900: 
Invalid SQL instruction
ORA-06512: at "TAMARIS.CREATE_USER_IN_DB", line 3
ORA-06512: at line 2
00900. 00000 -  "invalid SQL statement"
*Cause:    
*Action:

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2697

Answers (1)

Justin Cave
Justin Cave

Reputation: 231861

1) As @Bob Jarvis suggested, when you build a SQL statement that you intend to pass to EXECUTE IMMEDIATE, that SQL statement should not contain a trailing semicolon ;

2) Since CREATE USER and GRANT are DDL statements, they issue implicit commits before and after they are executed. That means that you cannot call DDL statements in a trigger since a trigger cannot cause a transaction to be ended. If you really want to do this (and creating users as a side effect of inserting a row in a table seems like a very problematic architecture), you would have to do it asynchronously. Your trigger can call DBMS_JOB to schedule a job to run after your current transaction completes and that job can execute DDL statements. For example, if you create a procedure that actually creates the user (this is where all your DDL would go)

CREATE PROCEDURE create_user( p_username IN NVARCHAR2, 
                              p_password IN UTILISATEUR.passwordutilisateur%type,
                              p_type     IN NUMBER )
AS
  <<implement procedure>>

then your trigger could do something like

CREATE OR REPLACE
TRIGGER UTILISATEUR_CREATE_USER_TRG 
AFTER INSERT ON UTILISATEUR 
FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
  nom_compte NVARCHAR2(20 CHAR);
  str_create VARCHAR2(300);
  str_grant VARCHAR(250);
  type_compte NUMBER;
  l_jobno PLS_INTEGER;
  unauthorized_exception EXCEPTION;
BEGIN

  CASE
    WHEN :new.idtypecompte = 1 THEN
      nom_compte := :new.pseudoutilisateur;
      type_compte := 1;
    WHEN :new.idtypecompte = 2 THEN
      nom_compte := 'AC_'|| :new.pseudoutilisateur;
      type_compte := 2;
    WHEN :new.idtypecompte = 3 THEN
      RAISE unauthorized_exception;
  END CASE;

  dbms_job.submit( l_jobno,
                   'BEGIN create_user( ''' || nom_compte || ''', ' || 
                                       '''' || :new.passwordutilisateur || ''', ' || 
                                       type_compte || '); END;' );
END;

Upvotes: 2

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