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hepifish
hepifish

Reputation: 784

Change inserted value with trigger

I've just started to learn SQL a few weeks ago and I'm trying to make a trigger which changes the inserted value into 10 if it's smaller than 10. I searched for 4h now and I've found a lot of answers but none was good(for me). I really don't understand where the problem is. Here is the code: 

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER NumberOfBooks
BEFORE INSERT
ON Book
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN 
  IF new.nobook < 10
  THEN
    SET new.nobook = 10;
  END IF;
  END;

Upvotes: 5

Views: 25144

Answers (1)

Mureinik
Mureinik

Reputation: 311393

In Oracle's trigger syntax the newly inserted record is referred to by :new, not new (notice the colon). Additionally, SET is a part of an update statement, not a way to set field values - those are done by simple assignments, but note that these are done with := rather than =.
So, your trigger should read:

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER NumberOfBooks
    BEFORE INSERT
    ON book
    FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
    IF :new.nobook < 10
    THEN
        :new.nobook := 10;
    END IF;
END;

Upvotes: 10

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