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ASA Database Administration Guide
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Defining trigger conditions for events


Each event definition has a system event associated with it. It also has one or more trigger conditions. The event handler is triggered when the trigger conditions for the system event are satisfied.

The trigger conditions are included in the WHERE clause of the CREATE EVENT statement, and can be combined using the AND keyword. Each trigger condition is of the following form:

event_condition(
      condition-name )
      comparison-operator
      value

The condition-name argument is one of a set of preset strings, which are appropriate for different event types. For example, you can use DBSize (the database file size in Megabytes) to build a trigger condition suitable for the GrowDB system event. The database server does not check that the condition-name matches the event type: it is your responsibility to ensure that the condition is meaningful in the context of the event type.

Examples 

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