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- From: mmcgreg@uswnvg.com (Mark McGregor)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: How to print something in PL/SQL
- Message-ID: <2662@uswnvg.uswnvg.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 18:08:26 GMT
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- I'm sure others will give the same answer, but you are basically SOL.
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- Oracle, in their infinite wisdom, has deemed it appropriate that PL/SQL
- have no native print utilities. A rather hideous means of "printing"
- is to write results to a table and then print them out with a select
- statement following the PL/SQL script. But this is horrible (and costly
- in terms of extra database access) alternative to a print statement.
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- I personally wish they would provide such things (with warnings on usage
- as appropriate) and let us worry about the consequences. Assume we know
- what we want and need to do. What an amazing concept.
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- Mark McGregor (Another less than satisfied user of PL/SQL print commands)
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- p.s. One would hope that Oracle fixes this "feature" at some point.
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