Oracle update current row

Improve this answer. NishanthLawrence: works for me: sqlfiddle. Am getting the same error when I used before too , by the way in your sqlfiddle you are just modifying the same field. I am trying to set one field based on the value of an xmltype field — Nishanth Lawrence. It must be :new. You were right I missed the colon, but I wanted trigger to be executed after the insertion. As I wanted to access the xmlcolumn after insertion — Nishanth Lawrence.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. When we want to issue a lock over the record set returned by the cursor associated SELECT query, we can opt for the FOR UPDATE clause, which automatically places an exclusive row-level lock on all the rows retrieved, forbidding any other session from performing a DML operation on them until we perform a commit or a rollback to release the lock.

In the below code listing, the employees joined before the year are archived and during the cursor process, no other session is permitted to make any changes to those employees using the FOR UPDATE clause.

OPEN cur;. CLOSE cur;. After a TCL operation is performed, the cursor pointer gets reset and the cursor will be no longer accessible, thus results in an error when fetched further as shown below. Thus, any TCL operation on the cursor record set has to be done only after fetching all the rows from the cursor context area using a loop process similar to the above listing example.

The first value is assigned to the first column in the list, the second value is assigned to the second column in the list, and so on. Any valid SQL expression. Chooses which rows to update in the database table.

February 16, - pm UTC. Fantastic, nicely done! Completely forgot about merge Correction Racer I. Igor, February 16, - pm UTC. Am I missing anything? Simple is good Racer I. February 19, - am UTC.