Question

Am very new to Oracle triggers. Suppose I have a trigger on an insert in the table emp. Is there a way to find out what was the inserted record that fired the trigger. I wanted the trigger to have code that does something if the inserted record was a particular value.

Answer 1

Assuming you have a row-level trigger, you can simply use the :NEW pseudo-record

CREATE TRIGGER name_of_trigger
  BEFORE INSERT ON emp
  FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
  <<declare variables>>
BEGIN
  IF( :new.ename = 'JUSTIN' )
  THEN
    <<do something if the newly inserted ENAME value is 'JUSTIN'>>
  END IF;
END;

For a DDL trigger, the approach is completely different. In that case, the pseudofunctions ora_dict_obj_owner and ora_dict_obj_name will return the owner and name of the table that the DDL statement is operating on.