Oracle - Triggers to create a history row on update

Question

First, we currently have the behavior that\'s desired, but it\'s not trivial to maintain when any changes to the database are needed. I\'m looking for anything simpler, more ef

Answer 1

Unfortunately there is no way to avoid referencing all the column names (:OLD.this, :OLD.that, etc.) in triggers. However, what you could do is write a program to generate the trigger code from the table definition (in USER_TAB_COLS). Then whenever the table is changed you can generate and compile a fresh copy of the triggers.

See this AskTom thread for how to do that.