Statement level trigger!!!!

Question

Hi Gurus,
I have an issue here. I am inserting multiple rows in a table say A. so I wrote an after insert trigger for each row referencing new as new and old as old on table A. This trigger when fired inserts rows in table B.
These rows are selected from say table C by using the :new.column (one of the coulmns that are about to be inserted in tableA) of table A as parameter and then inserted into table B. But I want that trigger to fire only once though I am inserting multiple rows.
For this purpose I took out the "for each row and referencing new as new and old as old statements" to make it statement level trigger but in this case I am unable to use the :new.column of table A as parameters. Can anyone please suggest how to read the rows in statement level trigger that are being inserted in table A and pass them as parameters to select the values from table C and again insert them in table B. I know it is kinda confusing. Any suggestions...... Thanks in advance!!!!!

Answer 1

Hi warren,
Thnx for ur response. here is the code
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER ALPHA_AIR
AFTER INSERT
ON ALPHA
REFERENCING NEW AS NEW OLD AS OLD
FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
l_source varchar2(10);
l_amount number;
l_comments varchar2(50);
BEGIN
     SELECT      b_source,
          b_amount,
          b_comments
     INTO     l_source,
          l_amount,
          l_comments
     FROM BETA
     WHERE beta_id=:new.alpha_id:
     INSERT INTO GAMMA
( g_source,
     g_amount,
     g_comments,
     date )
     VALUES (
          l_source,
          l_amount,
          l_comments,     
          sysdate);
END;
The trigger is on table ALPHA and it selects data from BETA using :new.alpha_id as parameter. But for multiple rows inserted in table ALPHA, multiple times rows are inserted in table GAMMA. So I made it statement level trigger but I cannot pass :new.alpha_id as parameter in the select statement. Is there any way to do this. Hope it makes sense.