Dml_Handler at the Schema Level?

Question

Hi:
I'm using 11g R2 and doing a one-way streams replication within the same database. I've got a subset of tables within the same schema setup now for capture and I'm using dml_handlers on apply. The handlers are specified on each table with a package that takes each trapped LCR and writes its data out to a different table than the one that the LCR got captured from. This was done for a bolt-on reporting issue that popped up. This is all working great. Streams rocks!
Here's my next issue. I want to expand/morph the above approach in the following way. I want to do my capture at the schema level for all tables and also run just one dml_handler to take all LCRs for the specified schema and write them out as XML into a clob column. I've got the XML portion working and I pretty much know how I can get the streams part going as well, using a dml_handler-per-table approach similar to what I did above. What I would like to know is whether there's a way to avoid having to setup a dml_hander for each insert, update, and delete LCR on every table within the specified schema.
Instead of doing this....
BEGIN
DBMS_APPLY_ADM.SET_DML_HANDLER(
object_name => 'schema.table_a',
object_type => 'TABLE',
operation_name => 'INSERT',
error_handler => false,
user_procedure => 'package.procedure',
apply_database_link => NULL,
apply_name => 'apply_name');
END;
BEGIN
DBMS_APPLY_ADM.SET_DML_HANDLER(
object_name => 'schema.table_a',
object_type => 'TABLE',
operation_name => 'UPDATE',
error_handler => false,
user_procedure => 'package.procedure',
apply_database_link => NULL,
apply_name => 'apply_name');
END;
BEGIN
DBMS_APPLY_ADM.SET_DML_HANDLER(
object_name => 'schema.table_a',
object_type => 'TABLE',
operation_name => 'DELETE',
error_handler => false,
user_procedure => 'package.procedure',
apply_database_link => NULL,
apply_name => 'apply_name');
END;
Once for each table in the schema
I'd like to be able to do the following:
BEGIN
DBMS_APPLY_ADM.SET_DML_HANDLER(
schema_name => 'schema', ---This line is totally made up by me. The real argument is object_name
object_type => 'TABLE',
operation_name => 'ALL', ---This line is also totally made up by me. The real allowed options are Insert, Update, and Delete.
error_handler => false,
user_procedure => 'package.procedure',
apply_database_link => NULL,
apply_name => 'apply_name');
END;
Is there a way to do this? I don't see a procedure in dbms_apply_adm to accomplish it, or I just missed it. I could also do this within a loop using dynamic SQL but I'm hoping I won't have to.
Thanks for any help!
Cheers,
Mike

Answer 1

SCHEMA level is not possible with this procedure.
However, you can set the operation_name to 'DEFAULT' - which indicates all operations (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/LOB_UPDATE)