How to get the table infomation of a table is referencing in a trigger through a programme? for example: conn test/test SQL> desc courses; Name Type Nullable Default Comments -------------------- -------------- -------- ------- -------- COURSES_ID NUMBER Y COURSES_INFO VARCHAR2(1024) Y COURSES_SCORE NUMBER Y SQL> desc scores; Name Type Nullable Default Comments -------------------- ------------ -------- ------- -------- SCORE NUMBER DESCRIPTION VARCHAR2(20) Y and the foreign key column of the tabel 'courses' is COURSES_SCORE ,the referencing table is 'scores',and the primary key column of table'scores' is SCORE now in trigger: CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER my_trigger BEFORE INSERT ON test.courses FOR EACH ROW DECLARE rcname VARCHAR2(80); fathertable VARCHAR2(80); ownername VARCHAR2(80); f_columnname VARCHAR2(80); c_columnname VARCHAR2(80); myinfo VARCHAR2(80); ddlstr varchar2(500); BEGIN SELECT R_CONSTRAINT_NAME INTO rcname FROM All_Constraints WHERE owner='TEST'AND table_name='COURSES'; SELECT table_name INTO fathertable FROM All_Constraints WHERE CONSTRAINT_NAME=upper(rcname); SELECT owner INTO ownername FROM All_Constraints WHERE CONSTRAINT_NAME=upper(rcname); SELECT COLUMN_NAME INTO c_columnname FROM All_Cons_Columns WHERE table_name=upper('courses') AND owner='TEST'; SELECT COLUMN_NAME INTO f_columnname FROM All_Cons_Columns WHERE table_name=upper(fathertable) AND owner=upper(ownername); ddlstr:=' declare myinfo varchar2(80); begin select DESCRIPTIONl into myinfo from '|| fathertable||'where '|| f_columnname||'=new.'||c_columnname||'; end;'; execute immediate ddlstr; end; but the 'myinfo' is not useful in trigger my_trigger because it is a local variable,but now i want to get the value of 'myinfo', how can I? Thank you in advance!