Error PLS-00103 when trying to create a trigger

Question

Hello folks,
I am trying to create a trigger but I am encountering this error telling me that Oracle expected a ";" but found a bracket "(" in line 7. I have not yet found out what's the problem. It would be very appreciated if somebody could give a me a hint on this. The code used to create the trigger follows.
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER TriggerIns BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON Inscriptions
FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
num INTEGER;
BEGIN
IF :new.ni < 1000 THEN
SELECT COUNT(*) INTO num FROM Sportifs WHERE ns = :new.ni;
IF num = 0 THEN
RAISE(abort,'foreign key violation');
END IF;
END IF;
IF :new.ni > 1000 THEN
SELECT COUNT(*) INTO num From Equipes WHERE nequipe = :new.ni;
IF num = 0 THEN
RAISE(abort,'foreign key violation');
END IF;
END IF;
EXCEPTION
END;
Thanks in advance
Sebastian

Answer 1

user2019788 wrote:
Hello folks,
I am trying to create a trigger but I am encountering this error telling me that Oracle expected a ";" but found a bracket "(" in line 7. I have not yet found out what's the problem. It would be very appreciated if somebody could give a me a hint on this. The code used to create the trigger follows.
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER TriggerIns BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON Inscriptions
FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
num INTEGER;
BEGIN
IF :new.ni < 1000 THEN
SELECT COUNT(*) INTO num FROM Sportifs WHERE ns = :new.ni;
IF num = 0 THEN
RAISE(abort,'foreign key violation');
END IF;
END IF;
IF :new.ni > 1000 THEN
SELECT COUNT(*) INTO num From Equipes WHERE nequipe = :new.ni;
IF num = 0 THEN
RAISE(abort,'foreign key violation');
END IF;
END IF;
EXCEPTION
END;
Thanks in advance
SebastianDon't know why it's complaining about line 7 but your RAISE statement syntax is incorrect. I think what you want instead of "RAISE" is "RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR". You also need to either put something between the EXCEPTION and END or remove the "EXCEPTION"
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER TriggerIns BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON Inscriptions
   FOR EACH ROW
   DECLARE
     num INTEGER;
   BEGIN
     IF :new.ni < 1000 THEN
       SELECT COUNT(*) INTO num FROM Sportifs WHERE ns = :new.ni;
       IF num = 0 THEN
         RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20101,'foreign key violation');
       END IF;
     END IF;
     IF :new.ni > 1000 THEN
       SELECT COUNT(*) INTO num From Equipes WHERE nequipe = :new.ni;
       IF num = 0 THEN
         RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20101,'foreign key violation');
       END IF;
     END IF;
--   EXCEPTION
--     WHEN OTHERS THEN RAISE;
   END;