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September 03, 2019

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Triggers: You Say Stop, I Say Go
Triggers, more specifically DML triggers, are blocks of code that run automatically when the associated event occurs on a table. Some developers use them a lot. Many others say “Never use triggers!” What’s a DB dev to do? In our September PL/SQL Office Hours, Chris and Steven explore some of the nuances of triggers and have a BIG ARGUMENT over how and when they should be used. Well, OK, maybe not a BIG argument. But we’ll be happy to argue with anyone who shows up. Well, not ARGUE, exactly.

Guest appearances from Toon Koppelaars, of the Oracle Real World Performance Team, and Jacek Gebal of utPLSQL v3 fame.

Highlights below, with great discussion sprinkled throughout.

00:57 Making best use of AskTOM Office Hours website
01:50 Overview of controversy over triggers
03:40 Jacek Gabel and his experience with triggers
08:15 Toon Koppelaars on "Triggers Considered Harmful, Considered Harmful"
22:21 Evaluate several triggers, and moving trigger code to PL/SQL API
35:56 Using Flashback Data Archive for row change auditing
44:31 Final Q&A and closing comments
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    Chris Saxon

    Chris Saxon   

    Chris Saxon is an Oracle Developer Advocate and quizmaster on Dev Gym. His job is to help you get the best out of the Oracle Database and have fun with SQL! He's also part of the answer team on Ask TOM and creates YouTube videos at The Magic of SQL channel.
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    Steven Feuerstein

    Steven Feuerstein   

    Steven Feuerstein is a Senior Advisor at Insum Solutions (https://insum.ca), and is obsessed with the Oracle PL/SQL language, having written ten books on it (all published by O'Reilly Media). You will find an abundance of quizzes from Steven at the Dev Gym. Enjoy!
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    ToonKoppelaars

    ToonKoppelaars   

    Toon has been part of the Oracle eco-system since 1987. He is currently a member of Oracle's Real-World Performance team. The RWP-team troubleshoots application performance issues in and around the DBMS. The way applications currently use the DBMS, is often at the root of these performance issues. Prior to joining the RWP team, Toon has been mainly involved in database application development. His special interests are: architecting applications for performance and scalability, database design, and business rules / constraints modeling (see his idea on SQL Assertions here https://community.oracle.com/ideas/13028). He is a long-time champion of the Smart Database paradigm, i.e. using the database as a processing engine, and not just as a persistence layer.
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