Oracle SQL: Invalid table name when creating a trigger - sql

Question

I created this 4 tables:
create table terminatedEmployees (
empid number primary key,
dept number,
empname varchar2(50),
salary number
);
create table employees (
empid number primary key,
dept number,
empname varchar2(50),
salary number
);
create table payroll (
empid number primary key,
salary number,
CONSTRAINT fk_payemploy
FOREIGN KEY (empid)
REFERENCES employees(empid)
);
create table salaryAudit (
empid number primary key,
oldsal number,
newsal number,
datechanged date,
changedby varchar2(25),
CONSTRAINT fk_salaryaudit
FOREIGN KEY (empid)
REFERENCES employees(empid)
);
and now I'm trying to create a trigger in order to update two of them when employees table is updated:
CREATE TRIGGER trigger_updated_employees
AFTER UPDATE ON employees
FOR EACH ROW
when (old.salary != new.salary)
BEGIN
UPDATE INTO salaryAudit (newsal, oldsal)
VALUES(:new.salary, :old.salary);
UPDATE INTO payroll (salary)
VALUES(:new.salary);
END;
But I'm getting the error:
2/5 PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
2/12 PL/SQL: ORA-00903: invalid table name
4/5 PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
4/12 PL/SQL: ORA-00903: invalid table name
The three tables I'm calling in the trigger are ok and other triggers I created work...

Answer 1

Try something like this:
CREATE TRIGGER TRIGGER_UPDATED_EMPLOYEES
AFTER UPDATE ON EMPLOYEES
FOR EACH ROW
WHEN (OLD.SALARY <> NEW.SALARY)
BEGIN
MERGE INTO PAYROLL p
USING (SELECT :NEW.EMPID AS EMPID FROM DUAL) d
ON (p.EMPID = d.EMPID)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
INSERT (EMPID, SALARY)
VALUES (:NEW.EMPID, :NEW.SALARY)
WHEN MATCHED THEN
UPDATE
SET SALARY = :NEW.SALARY;
MERGE INTO SALARYAUDIT a
USING (SELECT :NEW.EMPID AS EMPID FROM DUAL) d
ON (a.EMPID = d.EMPID)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
INSERT (EMPID, OLDSAL, NEWSAL, DATECHANGED, CHANGEDBY)
VALUES (:NEW.EMPID, :OLD.SALARY, :NEW.SALARY, SYSDATE, 'SOME_USER')
WHEN MATCHED THEN
UPDATE
SET OLDSAL = :OLD.SALARY,
NEWSAL = :NEW.SALARY,
DATECHANGED = SYSDATE,
CHANGEDBY = 'SOME_USER';
END TRIGGER_UPDATED_EMPLOYEES;
Share and enjoy.

Answer 2

I got it working just correcting the UPDATE statements syntax and modifying the condition as #BobJarvis suggested, this is the final result:
CREATE TRIGGER trigger_updated_employees
AFTER UPDATE OF salary ON employees
FOR EACH ROW
when (old.salary <> new.salary)
BEGIN
UPDATE salaryAudit
SET (newsal, oldsal)
VALUES (:new.salary, :old.salary)
WHERE (salaryAudit.empid = old.empid);
UPDATE payroll
SET (salary)
VALUES (:new.salary)
WHERE (payroll.empid = old.empid);
END;
The concept is the same that #BobJarvis proposed but a lot simpler. Thanks