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Enable and Disable constraints and triggers in Oracle

During data migrations it’s common to have constraints disabled, usually for loading performance or testing purposes.
To aid in such task, we’re sharing two simple scripts, one for disabling and another for enabling.

To disable all enabled constraints and triggers, just execute:

BEGIN
  -- Constraints
  FOR c IN
  (SELECT c.owner, c.table_name, c.constraint_name
   FROM user_constraints c, user_tables t
   WHERE c.table_name = t.table_name
   AND c.status = 'ENABLED'
   ORDER BY c.constraint_type DESC)
  LOOP
    -- DISABLE
    execute immediate 'alter table "' || c.owner || '"."' || c.table_name || '" disable constraint ' || c.constraint_name;
  END LOOP;
 
  -- Triggers
  FOR ut IN
    (select ut.table_owner, ut.trigger_name
    from user_triggers ut
    where ut.status = 'ENABLED')
  LOOP
    -- DISABLE
    execute immediate 'ALTER TRIGGER "' || ut.table_owner || '"."' || ut.trigger_name || '" DISABLE;';
  END LOOP;
END;
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To enable all disabled constraints and triggers, just execute:

BEGIN
  -- Constraints
  FOR c IN
  (SELECT c.owner, c.table_name, c.constraint_name
   FROM user_constraints c, user_tables t
   WHERE c.table_name = t.table_name
   AND c.status = 'DISABLE'
   ORDER BY c.constraint_type DESC)
  LOOP
    -- ENABLE
    execute immediate 'alter table "' || c.owner || '"."' || c.table_name || '" enable constraint ' || c.constraint_name;
  END LOOP;
 
  -- Triggers
  FOR ut IN
    (select ut.table_owner, ut.trigger_name
    from user_triggers ut
    where ut.status = 'DISABLE')
  LOOP
    -- ENABLE
    execute immediate 'ALTER TRIGGER "' || ut.table_owner || '"."' || ut.trigger_name || '" ENABLE;';
  END LOOP;
END;
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