hi , This is my trigger code. Basically this trigger is not working. I can't figure out how to do it. Can someone give me some example CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER "CHARMS_ADM"."EMP_AUDIT" AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON "EMP" FOR EACH ROW DECLARE V_AUDITTABLENAME VARCHAR2(50); V_TABLENAME VARCHAR2(50); V_COUNT NUMBER; CURSOR C1 IS SELECT AUDITFIELDNAME FROM AUDITTRACKFLD WHERE AUDITTABLENAME = V_TABLENAME; BEGIN --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- CHECK IF THIS TABLE NEEDS TO BE TRACK --------------------------------------------------------------------- SELECT TABLE_NAME INTO V_TABLENAME FROM USER_TRIGGERS WHERE TRIGGER_NAME = 'EMP_AUDIT'; SELECT COUNT(*) INTO V_COUNT FROM AUDITTRACKTBL WHERE AUDITTABLENAME = V_TABLENAME; IF INSERTING THEN --PICK TABLE TO TRACK --PICK FIELD TO TRACK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TABLE NEED TO BE AUDITED ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IF V_COUNT <> 0 THEN --WHICH FIELD TO AUDIT FOR C1_REC IN C1 LOOP INSERT INTO EMPAUDITTRAIL_TBL (AUDITUSERID,AUDITEMPLOYEENAME,AUDITDATETIME, AUDITCHANGETYPE,AUDITTABLENAME,AUDITFIELDNAME, AUDITKEYVALUE,AUDITBEFOREVALUE,AUDITAFTERVALUE) VALUES (:NEW.CREATEDBY,:NEW.EMPLOYEENAME,:NEW.CREATEDDATE, 'INSERT',V_TABLENAME,C1_REC.AUDITFIELDNAME, 'NOPRIMARYKEY',:OLD.C1_REC.AUDITFIELDNAME,:NEW.C1_REC.AUDITFIELDNAME); END LOOP; END IF; END IF; END; __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l