Perform execute immediate within a trigger

As Jankovsky said in #2, you should check what myPkg.getViewSQL function returns. The error message seems to indicate that the function returns nothing (ie. you're trying to execute an empty statement).

And the reason DDL is not allowed within a trigger (Jankovsky's #1) without the suggested pragma is that DDL has an implied COMMIT (both before and after the execution of the provided statement), which is not allowed within a trigger.

It's not a DDL, its a DML. Correct me if I am wrong. Create or replace view is DML, and DDLs are when you create a table/index.constaint etc.
However, I did add the pragma autonomous transaction to the trigger and still getting the same error, and myPkg.getViewSQL  returns a valid view; which if I call outside the trigger runs and compiles

subirc

>Create or replace view is DML
wrong. CREATE, ALTER, DROP, TRUNCATE are all DDL statements.

Jankovsky,

You are right in both of your points. I need the PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS TRANSACTION and my getViewsql was not returning two view DDLs i.e. I had two  CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW statements returned from the  myPkg.getViewSQL function. Now, I have two functions  myPkg.getViewSQL1 and myPkg.getviewSQL2 and now they run fine.
So,  I tried this script and it works now
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declare
   myresult VARCHAR2(30000);
begin
    myresult :=  myPkg.getViewSQL1;
    execute immediate myresult;       
    myresult :=  myPkg.getViewSQL2;
   execute immediate myresult;       
end;
/
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Now, putting this in the trigger though, I am running into permissions problem. Looks like I don't have permission to execute the DDL from a trigger something which I don't have control on.  So I decided to write a  job instead using DMBS_JOB package. How do I write a job that runs everytime the table is inserted/updated/deleted? Or, I cannot do that and have to run the job every two minutes.
Also, how do I go about doing it ? I don't have much experience with DBMS_JOB package.

Will this work ?
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DECLARE
  X NUMBER;
BEGIN
  SYS.DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT
    (
      job        => X,
     what       =>   ' declare
   myresult VARCHAR2(30000);
begin
    myresult :=  myPkg.getViewSQL1;
    execute immediate myresult;       
    myresult :=  myPkg.getViewSQL2;
   execute immediate myresult;       
end; ' ,
     next_date  => to_date('23/10/2008 09:34:44','dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss'),
     interval   => 'SYSDATE+1/3600',
     no_parse   => FALSE,
    );
END;
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Jankovsky,  thank you, you already earned the initial points, I am raising the points now.

subirc

Sorry increasing the points

I will put up a new thread since I asked a new question