How to create triggers...

Question

I have the following trigger which seems to be working properly when it's created using sqlplus.
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER trig_address
BEFORE INSERT ON address REFERENCING NEW AS NEW
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SELECT seq_address.nextval INTO :NEW.ID FROM dual;
END;
I would like to create this thru JDBC if possible. I have run into problems that make me believe Oracle considers placement of keywords because this doesn't seem to work properly:
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER trig_address BEFORE INSERT ON address REFERENCING NEW AS NEW FOR EACH ROW BEGIN SELECT seq_address.nextval INTO :NEW.ID FROM dual;END;/
Is it possible to create triggers thru JDBC? If so, how?
Thx,
Dan
Edited by: user10432031 on Dec 15, 2008 6:20 AM

Answer 1

As you can see from following example, Oracle does not care about the formatting.
SQL> create table test (id number);
Table created.
SQL> create or replace trigger trgrow_testbu before update on test for each row begin :new.id := 10; end;
  2  /
Trigger created.
SQL>You have not mentioned the error that you are getting so I presume the forward slash at the end of following statement is causing the problem.
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER trig_address BEFORE INSERT ON address REFERENCING NEW AS NEW FOR EACH ROW BEGIN SELECT seq_address.nextval INTO :NEW.ID FROM dual;END;/Try removing that.
Apart from that, ensure that the logged in user has CREATE TRIGGER privilege.