{"id":2939,"date":"2019-08-13T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T08:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oracletutorial.com\/?page_id=2939"},"modified":"2025-06-01T05:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T12:45:49","slug":"oracle-enable-triggers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutorial.com\/plsql-tutorial\/oracle-enable-triggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Enable Triggers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: in this tutorial, you will learn how to enable a trigger or all triggers of a table in the database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id='enable-a-trigger'>Enable a trigger <a href=\"#enable-a-trigger\" class=\"anchor\" id=\"enable-a-trigger\" title=\"Anchor for Enable a trigger\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To enable a previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutorial.com\/plsql-tutorial\/oracle-disable-triggers\/\">disabled trigger<\/a>, you use the <code>ALTER TRIGGER ENABLE<\/code> statement:<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"SQL (Structured Query Language)\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"sql\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-sql\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ALTER<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">TRIGGER<\/span> trigger_name <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ENABLE<\/span>;<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">SQL (Structured Query Language)<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">sql<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p>In this syntax, you place the name of the trigger that you want to disable after the <code>ALTER TRIGGER<\/code> keywords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, the following statement enables the <code>customers_audit_trg<\/code> trigger:<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-2\" data-shcb-language-name=\"SQL (Structured Query Language)\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"sql\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-sql\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ALTER<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">TRIGGER<\/span> customers_audit_trg <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ENABLE<\/span>;<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-2\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">SQL (Structured Query Language)<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">sql<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p>Once the trigger is enabled, you can see its color changes from gray to orange:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutorial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/oracle-enable-triggers.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutorial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/oracle-enable-triggers.png 358w, https:\/\/www.oracletutorial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/oracle-enable-triggers-300x241.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id='enable-all-triggers-of-a-table'>Enable all triggers of a table <a href=\"#enable-all-triggers-of-a-table\" class=\"anchor\" id=\"enable-all-triggers-of-a-table\" title=\"Anchor for Enable all triggers of a table\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To enable all triggers of a table, you can use the <code>ALTER TABLE ... ENABLE ALL TRIGGERS<\/code> statement:<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-3\" data-shcb-language-name=\"SQL (Structured Query Language)\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"sql\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-sql\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ALTER<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">TABLE<\/span> table_name\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ENABLE<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ALL<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">TRIGGERS<\/span>;<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-3\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">SQL (Structured Query Language)<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">sql<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p>In this syntax, you put the name of the table in which you want to enable all triggers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, this statement enables all triggers of the <code>customers<\/code> table:<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-4\" data-shcb-language-name=\"SQL (Structured Query Language)\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"sql\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-sql\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ALTER<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">TABLE<\/span> customers\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ENABLE<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">ALL<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">TRIGGERS<\/span>;<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-4\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">SQL (Structured Query Language)<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">sql<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id='summary'>Summary <a href=\"#summary\" class=\"anchor\" id=\"summary\" title=\"Anchor for Summary\">#<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul 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