MySQL – Before Update Trigger
Triggers in MySQL are of two types: Before Triggers and After Triggers for various SQL operations like insertion, deletion and update. As we have already learned in previous chapters, the After Update Trigger is executed immediately after a value is updated in a row of a database table. Here, let us learn more about BEFORE UPDATE trigger.
MySQL Before Update Trigger
The Before Update Trigger is a row-level trigger supported by the MySQL database. It is type of special stored procedure which is executed automatically before a value is updated in a row of a database table.
A row-level trigger is a type of trigger that goes off every time a row is modified. Simply, for every single transaction made in a table (like insertion, deletion, update), one trigger acts automatically.
Whenever an UPDATE statement is executed in the database, the trigger is set to go off first followed by the updated value.
Syntax
Following is the syntax to create the BEFORE UPDATE trigger in MySQL −
CREATE TRIGGER trigger_name BEFORE UPDATE ON table_name FOR EACH ROW BEGIN -- trigger body END;
Example
Let us first create a table named USERS containing the details of users of an application. Use the following CREATE TABLE query to do so −
CREATE TABLE USERS( ID INT AUTO_INCREMENT, NAME VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, AGE INT NOT NULL, birthDATE VARCHAR(100), PRIMARY KEY(ID) );
Insert values into the USERS table using the regular INSERT statement as shown below −
INSERT INTO USERS (Name, Age, birthDATE) VALUES (''Sasha'', 23, ''24/06/1999''); (''Alex'', 21, ''12/01/2001'');
The USERS table is created as follows −
ID | Name | Age | birthDATE |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Sasha | 23 | 24/06/1999 |
2 | Alex | 21 | 12/01/2001 |
Creating the trigger:
Using the following CREATE TRIGGER statement, create a new trigger ”before_update_trigger” on the USERS table to display a customized error using SQLSTATE as follows −
DELIMITER // CREATE TRIGGER before_update_trigger BEFORE UPDATE ON USERS FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF NEW.AGE < 0 THEN SIGNAL SQLSTATE ''45000'' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = ''Age Cannot be Negative END IF; END // DELIMITER ;
Update values of the USERS table using the regular UPDATE statement −
UPDATE USERS SET AGE = -1 WHERE NAME = ''Sasha
Output
An error is displayed as the output for this query −
ERROR 1644 (45000): Age Cannot be Negative
Before Update Trigger Using a Client Program
We can also execute the Before Update Trigger using a client program instead of SQL queries directly.
Syntax
To execute the Before Update Trigger through a PHP program, we need to execute the CREATE TRIGGER statement using the mysqli function query() as follows −
$sql = "CREATE TRIGGER before_update_trigger BEFORE UPDATE ON SAMPLE FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF NEW.AGE < 0 THEN SIGNAL SQLSTATE ''45000'' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = ''Age Cannot be Negative END IF; END"; $mysqli->query($sql);
To execute the Before Update Trigger through a JavaScript program, we need to execute the CREATE TRIGGER statement using the query() function of mysql2 library as follows −
sql = `CREATE TRIGGER before_update_trigger BEFORE UPDATE ON SAMPLE FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF NEW.AGE < 0 THEN SIGNAL SQLSTATE ''45000'' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = ''Age Cannot be Negative END IF; END`; con.query(sql);
To execute the Before Update Trigger through a Java program, we need to execute the CREATE TRIGGER statement using the JDBC function execute() as follows −
String sql = "CREATE TRIGGER before_update_trigger BEFORE UPDATE ON SAMPLE FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF NEW.AGE < 0 THEN SIGNAL SQLSTATE ''45000'' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = ''Age Cannot be Negative END IF; END"; statement.execute(sql);
To execute the Before Update Trigger through a python program, we need to execute the CREATE TRIGGER statement using the execute() function of the MySQL Connector/Python as follows −
beforeUpdate_trigger_query = ''CREATE TRIGGER {trigger_name} BEFORE UPDATE ON {sample} FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF NEW.AGE < 0 THEN SIGNAL SQLSTATE ''45000'' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = ''Age Cannot be Negative'' END IF END'' cursorObj.execute(beforeUpdate_trigger_query)
Example
Following are the programs −
$dbhost = ''localhost $dbuser = ''root $dbpass = ''password $db = ''TUTORIALS $mysqli = new mysqli($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass, $db); if($mysqli->connect_errno ) { printf("Connect failed: %s
", $mysqli->connect_error); exit(); } //printf(''Connected successfully.
''); $sql = "CREATE TRIGGER before_update_trigger BEFORE UPDATE ON SAMPLE FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF NEW.AGE < 0 THEN SIGNAL SQLSTATE ''45000'' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = ''Age Cannot be Negative END IF; END"; if($mysqli->query($sql)){ printf("Trigger created successfully...!n"); } $q = "UPDATE SAMPLE SET AGE = -1 WHERE NAME = ''Sasha''"; $result = $mysqli->query($q); if ($result == true) { printf("Record updated successfully...!n"); } if($mysqli->error){ printf("Error message: " , $mysqli->error); } $mysqli->close();
Output
The output obtained is as follows −
Trigger created successfully...! PHP Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: Age Cannot be Negative
var mysql = require(''mysql2''); var con = mysql.createConnection({ host:"localhost", user:"root", password:"password" }); //Connecting to MySQL con.connect(function(err) { if (err) throw err; //console.log("Connected successfully...!"); //console.log("--------------------------"); sql = "USE TUTORIALS"; con.query(sql); sql = `CREATE TRIGGER before_update_trigger BEFORE UPDATE ON SAMPLE FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF NEW.AGE < 0 THEN SIGNAL SQLSTATE ''45000'' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = ''Age Cannot be Negative END IF; END`; con.query(sql); console.log("Before Update query executed successfully..!"); sql = "UPDATE SAMPLE SET AGE = -1 WHERE NAME = ''Sasha''"; con.query(sql); console.log("Table records: ") sql = "SELECT * FROM Sample"; con.query(sql, function(err, result){ if (err) throw err; console.log(result); }); });
Output
The output produced is as follows −
Error: Age Cannot be Negative
import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.Statement; public class BeforeUpdateTrigger { public static void main(String[] args) { String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/TUTORIALS"; String user = "root"; String password = "password"; ResultSet rs; try { Class.forName("com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver"); Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password); Statement st = con.createStatement(); //System.out.println("Database connected successfully...!"); String sql = "SELECT * FROM SAMPLE"; rs = st.executeQuery(sql); System.out.println("Sample table records before update: "); while(rs.next()) { String id = rs.getString("id"); String name = rs.getString("name"); String age = rs.getString("age"); String birth_date = rs.getString("birthDATE"); System.out.println("Id: " + id + ", Name: " + name + ", Age: " + age + ", Birth_date: " + birth_date); } //lets create trigger on student table String sql1 = "CREATE TRIGGER before_update_trigger BEFORE UPDATE ON SAMPLE FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF NEW.AGE < 0 THEN SIGNAL SQLSTATE ''45000'' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = ''Age Cannot be Negative END IF; END"; st.execute(sql1); System.out.println("Triggerd Created successfully...!"); //lets update table records String sql3 = "UPDATE SAMPLE SET AGE = -1 WHERE NAME = ''Sasha''"; st.execute(sql3); //let print SAMPLE table records String sql4 = "SELECT * FROM SAMPLE"; rs = st.executeQuery(sql4); System.out.println("Sample table records after update: "); while(rs.next()) { String id = rs.getString("id"); String name = rs.getString("name"); String age = rs.getString("age"); String birth_date = rs.getString("birthDATE"); System.out.println("Id: " + id + ", Name: " + name + ", Age: " + age + ", Birth_date: " + birth_date); } }catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }
Output
The output obtained is as shown below −
Sample table records before update: Id: 1, Name: Sasha, Age: 23, Birth_date: 24/06/1999 Id: 2, Name: Alex, Age: 21, Birth_date: 12/01/2001
import mysql.connector # Establishing the connection connection = mysql.connector.connect( host=''localhost'', user=''root'', password=''password'', database=''tut'' ) # Creating a cursor object cursorObj = connection.cursor() table_name = ''Sample'' trigger_name = ''before_update_trigger'' beforeUpdate_trigger_query = f'''''' CREATE TRIGGER {trigger_name} BEFORE UPDATE ON {table_name} FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF NEW.AGE < 0 THEN SIGNAL SQLSTATE ''45000'' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = ''Age Cannot be Negative END IF; END '''''' cursorObj.execute(beforeUpdate_trigger_query) print(f"BEFORE UPDATE Trigger ''{trigger_name}'' is created successfully.") connection.commit() # Update the "AGE" column update_query = "UPDATE Sample SET AGE = -1 WHERE NAME = ''Sasha''" cursorObj.execute(update_query) print("Update query executed successfully.") # close the cursor and connection connection.commit() cursorObj.close() connection.close()
Output
Following is the output of the above code −
BEFORE UPDATE Trigger ''before_update_trigger'' is created successfully. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:UsersLenovoAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython310libsite-packagesmysqlconnectorconnection_cext.py", line 633, in cmd_query self._cmysql.query( _mysql_connector.MySQLInterfaceError: Age Cannot be Negative The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:UsersLenovoDesktopuntitled.py", line 29, incursorObj.execute(update_query) File "C:UsersLenovoAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython310libsite-packagesmysqlconnectorcursor_cext.py", line 330, in execute result = self._cnx.cmd_query( File "C:UsersLenovoAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython310libsite-packagesmysqlconnectoropentelemetrycontext_propagation.py", line 77, in wrapper return method(cnx, *args, **kwargs) File "C:UsersLenovoAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython310libsite-packagesmysqlconnectorconnection_cext.py", line 641, in cmd_query raise get_mysql_exception( mysql.connector.errors.DatabaseError: 1644 (45000): Age Cannot be Negative