I have looked a lot through the internet the past 3 hours but I cannot manage to make the trigger work. Here is my setup:
CREATE TABLE faktura ( 
                       extnr        VARCHAR2(32), 
                       fakturanr    NUMBER,
                       fakturadate  DATE, 
                       partner_name VARCHAR2(32)
                     )
INSERT INTO faktura(extnr, fakturanr, fakturadate, partner_name)
VALUES('1234/12', 1, to_date('01.01.2022', 'dd.mm.yyyy'), 'Global Sellers LTD');
INSERT INTO faktura(extnr, fakturanr, fakturadate, partner_name)
VALUES('111', 2, to_date('02.01.2022', 'dd.mm.yyyy'), 'Thomas Limited');
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW view_faktura AS 
SELECT extnr, fakturanr, fakturadate 
  FROM faktura;
SELECT * 
  FROM faktura; 
  
SELECT * 
  FROM view_faktura;
There is a user USER1 that has granted UPDATE on view_faktura only. Making UPDATE statement on the view will change the underlying faktura table data.
UPDATE sol.view_faktura SET extnr = '21' WHERE fakturanr = '2'
What I want to do is log into another new table any UPDATEs that are done on the view (or underlying table):
CREATE TABLE log_table( 
                        id             NUMBER GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY, 
                        field changed?, 
                        old_value      VARCHAR2(50), 
                        new_value      VARCHAR2(50), 
                        fakturanr      NUMBER, 
                        date_of_change DATE
                       );
Now, I try the trigger:
create or replace trigger ChangeOnFaktura
  after update of "some column" on faktura "(or view_faktura)"
  for each row
declare
begin
  insert into log_table (
    old_value, new_value, date_of_change, "field changed?", fakturanr
  ) values (
    oldvalue, newvalue, sysdate, "field changed?", "fakturanr from the changed record"
  );
Can anyone help me with this?
Edit: Changed some quotation marks to ” instead of ‘. “field changed?” I do not know how to refer to this.
Error I get (without any of the fields I do not know how to refer to in double quotations) is:
Error(2,98): PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol “end-of-file” when expecting one of the following: ( begin case declare end exception exit for goto if loop mod null pragma raise return select update while with << continue close current delete fetch lock insert open rollback savepoint set sql execute commit forall merge pipe purge
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Answer
Define your log table so that field_changed has a data type and a valid identifier:
CREATE TABLE log_table( id NUMBER GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY, field_changed VARCHAR2(30), old_value VARCHAR2(32), new_value VARCHAR2(32), fakturanr NUMBER, date_of_change DATE );
Then you can define the trigger, using the :NEW and :OLD records to get the values and an END; statement to terminate the block:
create or replace trigger ChangeOnFaktura
  after update of extnr on faktura
  for each row
DECLARE
BEGIN
  insert into log_table (
    old_value,
    new_value,
    date_of_change,
    field_changed,
    fakturanr
  ) values (
    :OLD.extnr,
    :NEW.extnr,
    SYSDATE,
    'EXTNR',
    :NEW.fakturanr
  );
END;
/
or, as an AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION:
create or replace trigger ChangeOnFaktura
  after update of extnr on faktura
  for each row
DECLARE
  PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION;
BEGIN
  insert into log_table (
    old_value,
    new_value,
    date_of_change,
    field_changed,
    fakturanr
  ) values (
    :OLD.extnr,
    :NEW.extnr,
    SYSDATE,
    'EXTNR',
    :NEW.fakturanr
  );
  COMMIT;
END;
/
Then, after the update, the log table contains:
ID FIELD_CHANGED OLD_VALUE NEW_VALUE FAKTURANR DATE_OF_CHANGE 1 EXTNR 111 21 2 2022-06-21 09:21:16 
db<>fiddle here
Or for multiple columns, you can either create a second copy of the trigger and change the column names or use:
create or replace trigger ChangeOnFaktura
  after update on faktura
  for each row
BEGIN
  IF :OLD.extnr <> :NEW.extnr
  OR (:OLD.extnr IS NULL AND :NEW.extnr IS NOT NULL)
  OR (:OLD.extnr IS NOT NULL AND :NEW.extnr IS NULL)
  THEN
    insert into log_table (
      old_value,
      new_value,
      date_of_change,
      field_changed,
      fakturanr
    ) values (
      :OLD.extnr,
      :NEW.extnr,
      SYSDATE,
      'EXTNR',
      :NEW.fakturanr
    );
  END IF;
  
  IF :OLD.partner_name <> :NEW.partner_name
  OR (:OLD.partner_name IS NULL AND :NEW.partner_name IS NOT NULL)
  OR (:OLD.partner_name IS NOT NULL AND :NEW.partner_name IS NULL)
  THEN
    insert into log_table (
      old_value,
      new_value,
      date_of_change,
      field_changed,
      fakturanr
    ) values (
      :OLD.partner_name,
      :NEW.partner_name,
      SYSDATE,
      'PARTNER_NAME',
      :NEW.fakturanr
    );
  END IF;
END;
/
db<>fiddle here