Oracle jdbc creating a table, sequence and trigger

Question

I'm trying to create a table with a sequence and with a trigger for that sequence. When I do this within Oracle Express edition I have the following SQL statements. Which DO run correctly inside Oracle Express using the same user I log in with JDBC.
CREATE table "TEST" (
"ID" NUMBER(10) NOT NULL,
"NAME" VARCHAR2(20),
constraint "TEST_PK" primary key ("ID")
CREATE sequence "TEST_SEQ"
CREATE trigger "BI_TEST"
before insert on "TEST"
for each row
begin
if :NEW."ID" is null then
select "TEST_SEQ".nextval into :NEW."ID" from dual;
end if;
end;
So now what I do is put each of these into a List of Strings and execute 1 by one like this:
List<String> commands = new ArrayList<String>(4);
commands.add("Create table ...");
commands.add("Create sequence ...");
commands.add("Create trigger...");
st = con.createStatement();
for (String command : commands) {
st.execute(command);
etc...
But I get an error with the trigger statement. "Error with Oracle command: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist"
It seems to me that Oracle has not yet seen the new table at this point. or maybe my user can create tables but not triggers? If that's the case why did it work in the express application itself?
TIA

Answer 1

SproketBoy wrote:
But I get an error with the trigger statement. "Error with Oracle command: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist"Keep in mind: Oracle is not lying to you.
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It seems to me that Oracle has not yet seen the new table at this point. or maybe my user can create tables but not triggers? If that's the case why did it work in the express application itself?No, DDL commands cause an explicit commit. As soon as you invoke them, the change is permanent. If it was a rights problem, you'd get a different ORA error stating that, it won't silently fail.
Lets not assume it is anything difficult, perhaps there is simply a typo in a name somewhere?