Is there an automatic modification time stamp type for Oracle columns?

Question

Is there a way to create a timestamp column in Oracle that automatically stores a timestamp of when the record has changed ?

Answer 1

Pretty sure you have to do this with a trigger in Oracle:

create or replace TRIGGER parkedorder_tbiur
   BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE
   ON parkedorder
   REFERENCING OLD AS old_row NEW AS new_row
   FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
   IF INSERTING
   THEN
      IF :new_row.ID IS NULL
      THEN
         SELECT parkedorder_seq.NEXTVAL
           INTO :new_row.ID
           FROM DUAL;
      END IF;
   END IF;

   IF    :new_row.lastupdated <> SYSDATE
      OR :new_row.lastupdated IS NULL
   THEN
      SELECT sysdate
        INTO :new_row.lastupdated
        FROM DUAL;
   END IF;

   SELECT SYS_CONTEXT ( 'USERENV', 'OS_USER' )
     INTO :new_row.lastupdatedby
     FROM DUAL;
END;