Triggers are implemented at the database layer and fired off by the database engine itself. This means you do not need to modify the code within your front-end application that the users see. This is ...

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The Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) is well-known in the Oracle database administrator community. This is one of the most successful models I have seen of an effective user group and its ...

I have a 3rd party app that I suspect is behaving badly (actually, I'm about 99.9% sure it is). When I save changes to the database, it executes what should be (as near as I can tell) about 20 SQL ...

The 'magic' for want of a better word that makes this happen is triggers. This is a feature of high-end database systems like Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL that causes program code to execute via the ...