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ok question should easy 1 think. learning triggers, , trying figure out homework question. have 3 tables, movies (title, year, length, genre, studioname, producer) starsin (movietitle, starname) moviestar (name, address, gender, birthdate)

so need write trigger assuring @ times, star appearing in starsin appears in moviestar. need make trigger both insert , update events.

update: ok changed statement little still can't figure out

create or replace trigger movietrigger   after update or insert on starsin   each row   when(new.starname not in(select "name" moviestar))   begin insert moviestar("name") values(new.starname) end; 

now getting error

error report: ora-02251: subquery not allowed here 02251. 00000 -  "subquery not allowed here" *cause:    subquery not allowed here in statement. *action:   remove subquery statement. 

i learned oracle not support subquery in when clause... trying figure out limited knowledge. if has clever way of doing know :-).

thanks again

you created statement-level trigger. fire once each insert or update statement. single insert or update statement can insert/update many rows in 1 go. code needs single row , assumes single row inserted or updated.

what need rowlevel triggers ("for each row") if want follow path.


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