Thoughts on updating data

I have an APEX application that allows me to update data in a table. The table has a USER field and a LAST_UPDATE field. When the record is updated by a particular user I would like to USER and LAST_UPDATE file to be updated with the CURRENT USER ID and the CURRENT DATE regardless of what is put there.. I would like to do this without a Trigger.
I am trying to figure out how to do this with what APEX provides.

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Thanks!
Are there any good samples around showing examples of this?How are you accomplishing the updates to the SQL Server table now? Is your ODBC connector/gateway taking care of that for you? I guess my question is are you able to use the ARP within Apex and just point to a table (which might be dblinked to SQL Server) or are you using a procedure in your Oracle database to pass the updates to SQL Server?
Etiher way, it would seem that these columns are no different from any other columns in the table, with the exception that you might not want to display these in the Apex UI, which is not a problem, you would just make them hidden items.
To get the values into them you would then use either the v('app_user') or :APP_USER syntax to pass the username value and sysdate should cover the current update date/time.
Where is the difficulty? If I'm off the mark please correct me. Thanks.
Earl
Edited by: Earl Lewis on Jan 19, 2010 12:08 PM

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