Trigger after insert to check and compare records between table - sql

Question

In an Oracle Database, I need to create some trigger or procedure to treat this case in the most performative way possible (is an extremely large amount of data).
I have a table called ORDER_A that every day receives a full load (its truncated, and all records are inserted again).
I have a table called ORDER_B which is a copy of ORDER_A, containing the same data and some additional control dates.
Each insertion on ORDER_A must trigger a process that looks for a record with the same identifier (primary key: order_id) in table B.
If a record exists with the same order_id, and any of the other columns have changed, an update must be performed on table B
If a record exists with the same order_id, and no values ​​in the other columns have been modified, nothing should be performed, the record must remain the same in table B.
If there is no record with the same order_id, it must be inserted in table B.
My tables are like this
CREATE TABLE ORDER_A
(
ORDER_ID NUMBER NOT NULL,
ORDER_CODE VARCHAR2(50),
ORDER_STATUS VARCHAR2(20),
ORDER_USER_ID NUMBER,
ORDER_DATE TIMESTAMP(6),
PRIMARY KEY (ORDER_ID)
);
CREATE TABLE ORDER_B
(
ORDER_ID NUMBER NOT NULL,
ORDER_CODE VARCHAR2(50),
ORDER_STATUS VARCHAR2(20),
ORDER_USER_ID NUMBER,
ORDER_DATE TIMESTAMP(6)
INSERT_AT TIMESTAMP(6),
UPDATED_AT TIMESTAMP(6),
PRIMARY KEY (ORDER_ID)
);
I have no idea how to do this and what is the best way (with a trigger, procedure, using merge, etc.)
Can someone give me a direction, please?

Answer 1

Here is some pseudo-code to show you a potential trigger based solution that does not fall back into slow row-by-row processing.
create or replace trigger mytrg
for insert or update delete on ordera
compound trigger
pklist sys.odcinumberlist;
before statement is
begin
pklist := sys.odcinumberlist();
end before statement ;
after each row is
begin
pklist.extend;
pklist(pklist.count) := :new.order_id;
end before each row;
after statement is
begin
merge into orderb b
using (
select a.*
from ordera a,
table(pklist) t
where a.order_id = t.column_value
) m
when matched then
update
set b.order_code = m.order_code,
b.order_status = m.order_status,
...
where decode(b.order_code,m.order_code,0,1)=1
or decode(b.order_status,m.order_status,0,1)=1
....
when not matched then
insert (b.order_id,b.order_code,....)
values (m.order_id,m.order_code,....);
end after statement ;
end;
We hold the impacted primary keys, and then build a single merge later, with an WHERE embed to minimise update activities.
If your application allows the update of primary keys, you'd need some additions, but this should get you started