Run Trigger at certain time only 1

[Andrzejek]

I have this Trigger in the table:
[tt][blue]BEFORE UPDATE
:[/blue]NEW.RECORD_LAST_UPDATED[blue] := SYSDATE;[/blue][/tt]
which updates the field when the record is updated. Great. But at night all records in this table get updated (like clearing all locks on all records) so all records get the date/time of last update at midnight.

How do I limit of when this Trigger gets to run if I want to exclude any time between - let's say - 10:00 PM and 6:00 AM next day?

I was thinking to employ somehow:
[tt]SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'HH') AS MYTIME FROM DUAL[/tt]
but there may be a better way to do it....

Have fun.

---- Andy

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[johnherman]

You could store the "Exclude start and end times" in a table. There are some advantages to this approach as you'll probably see.

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[Beilstwh]

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER MY_TABLE_T1
BEFORE UPDATE
ON MY_TABLE
REFERENCING NEW AS New OLD AS Old
FOR EACH ROW
WHEN (
TO_NUMBER(to_char(sysdate,'HH24')) BETWEEN 6 AND 22
)
BEGIN
:NEW.RECORD_LAST_UPDATED := SYSDATE;
END whb_test;
/

Bill
Lead Application Developer
New York State, USA

 

[Andrzejek]

Thank you Bill

Have fun.

---- Andy

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[Beilstwh]

Welcome. Glad to help

Bill
Lead Application Developer
New York State, USA