Re: Development question - Trigger to disallow UPDATE without WHERE clause?

From: Michael Moore <michaeljmoore_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:37:50 -0800
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Finding a where clause isn't necessarily going to help you. UPDATE MYTABLE SET mycol = 'hi' where 1 = 1; It has a where clause, but how does that help?

Mike

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Phil Jones <phil_at_phillip.im> wrote:
> If v$sql gets populated before any records are actually processed (I imagine it is, but a quick test will verify) & the sql_id in v$session also gets populated after the query has been parsed but before any rows are processed you might be able to do it in a before update trigger that throws an exception. You'll need sys_context('USERENV','SID') to join with the v$ tables.
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> To be honest, you'd be better off using a cluebat on the devs :)
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> Phil
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> On 27 Jan 2012, at 20:13, "Taylor, Chris David" <ChrisDavid.Taylor_at_ingrambarge.com> wrote:
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>> Our developers are working on a large project that is going to require a lot of scripts to convert data and due to an error in one of the scripts one of our tables was fubar.
>> So the question came up - is there a way in a trigger or other method to trap UPDATE statements that do not have a WHERE clause?
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>> I'm searching for this now but wanted to poll the list at the same time.  Off the top of my head I couldn't come up with anything.
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>> Thanks!
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>> Chris
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