create triggers - error at DECLARE

Question

i learn triggers from http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Triggers and i have:

create trigger bi_emps_fer before insert on emps for each row
begin

    declare newsa         


        

Answer 1

did you specify delimiters ?

delimiter #

create trigger bi_emps_fer before insert on emps for each row
begin

    declare newsal decimal(10,2) default 0;

    // do sql stuff here but not what you're doing !

    set new.salary = newsal;

end#

delimiter ;