:NEW cannot be used in After Delete Trigger ?

Question

Hi,
Is there any way to get the :NW.value in the After delete trigger for each row. My requirement is audit log of the end user DML operations along with user Name (HERE THE USER IS NOT THE ORACLE USER, BECAUSE OF THE LARGE NUMBER OF END USERS WE ARE MAINTAINING ONE TABLE TO CREATE USER NAME & PASSWORD, WHEN THE USER LOGIN TO ORACLE FORM SCREEN, ASSIGN THE USER NAME TO GLOBAL VARIABLE) & Action Date.
Here is my code for trigger - It is working fine with INSER & UPDATE but for DELETE User is NULL
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER Tgr_stud_det
AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE ON student_details
FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
BEGIN
IF Inserting THEN
-------------INSERT VALUE---------------
INSERT INTO Log_student_details
(Seq,
App_User,
Action,
Action_Date,
stud_name,
stud_age,
stud_sex)
VALUES
(stud_sequence.NEXTVAL,
:NEW.App_User,
'INSERT',
SYSDATE,
:NEW.stud_name,
:NEW.stud_age,
:NEW.stud_sex);
-------------DELETE VALUE---------------
ELSIF Deleting THEN
INSERT INTO Log_student_details
(Seq,
App_User,
Action,
Action_Date,
Comment_Up,
stud_name,
stud_age,
stud_sex)
VALUES
(stud_sequence.NEXTVAL,
:OLD.App_User,
'DELETE',
SYSDATE,
NULL,
:OLD.stud_name,
:OLD.stud_age,
:OLD.stud_sex);
ELSIF Updating THEN
-------------UPDATE VALUE---------------
INSERT INTO Log_student_details
(Seq,
App_User,
Action,
Action_Date,
Comment_Up,
stud_name,
stud_age,
stud_sex)
VALUES
(stud_sequence.NEXTVAL,
:NEW.App_User,
'UPDATE',
SYSDATE,
'NEW VALUE',
:NEW.stud_name,
:NEW.stud_age,
:NEW.stud_sex);
INSERT INTO Log_student_details
(Seq,
App_User,
Action,
Action_Date,
Comment_Up,
stud_name,
stud_age,
stud_sex)
VALUES
(stud_sequence.CURRVAL,
:NEW.App_User,
'UPDATE',
SYSDATE,
'OLD VALUE',
:OLD.stud_name,
:OLD.stud_age,
:OLD.stud_sex);
END IF;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
NULL;
END Tgr_stud_det;
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Rizly,
As i mentioned in the above post, you should remove the references of :old and :new when you are trying to use the global variables. These values are only significant when you the talk about the record in the table.
For the scenario, you explained, your trigger would insert two records....The trigger would be fired twice.. once during the insert and once during the delete. The audit table will have two records indicating both the actions..
Take a look at this example below...I am artificially manufacturing a user id in the package test_pkg and using that in the insert trigger. As i explained above, you dont need the :old and :new references because the user id is not a column in the table . hence the :old and :new references have no relevance.
Also note that, for the delete, I use the :old value and for the insert, I use the :new value.
for update, I assume you want to store the old record and hence used :old (you can of course use :new too..technically.).
I don't have access to a forms environement, but the user id logic should be similar to what I described below.
sql> create table t(
  2     id number,
  3     name varchar2(20)
  4  );
Table created.
sql> create table t_audit
  2     ( id number,
  3       name varchar2(20),
  4       action varchar2(20),
  5       user_id varchar2(20)
  6  );
Table created.
sql> create or replace package test_pkg as
  2      function get_user_id return varchar2;
  3  end test_pkg;
  4  /
Package created.
sql> create or replace package body test_pkg as
  2      function get_user_id return varchar2 is
  3      begin
  4          return 'USER' || to_char(sysdate,'HH24:MI');
  5      end get_user_id;
  6  end test_pkg;
  7  /
Package body created.
  1  create or replace trigger trg_biud_t
  2     before insert or update or delete on t
  3     for each row
  4  begin
  5     if INSERTING then
  6        insert into t_audit values (:new.id, :new.name, 'INSERT',test_pkg.get_user_i
  7     elsif UPDATING then
  8        insert into t_audit values (:old.id, :old.name, 'UPDATE',test_pkg.get_user_i
  9     elsif DELETING then
10        insert into t_audit values (:old.id, :old.name, 'DELETE',test_pkg.get_user_i
11     end if;
12* end;
sql> /
Trigger created.
sql> select * from t;
no rows selected
sql> select * from t_audit;
no rows selected
sql> insert into t values (100, 'Rajesh');
1 row created.
sql> insert into t values (200,'Kumar');
1 row created.
sql> delete from t where id = 200;
1 row deleted.
sql> commit;
Commit complete.
sql> select * from t
  2  /
        ID NAME
       100 Rajesh
sql> select * from t_audit;
        ID NAME                 ACTION               USER_ID
       100 Rajesh               INSERT               USER15:36
       200 Kumar                INSERT               USER15:36
       200 Kumar                DELETE               USER15:37