Re: sqlplus question

Rajesh Dayal wrote:
>
> I was also trying to put some script on Oracle scheduler and successful too.
> But on Oracle 8
> I failed. It was successful on Oracle 8i (8 doesn't support execute
> immediate). Would appreciate,
> if someone can give equivalent code for Oracle 8.
> Here is the code for Oracle 8i,
>
> create or replace PROCEDURE SWITCH IS
> 2 BEGIN
> 3 execute immediate 'alter system switch logfile ';
> 4 commit ;
> 5 END;
> 6 /
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Rajesh
> NOTE: It would be executed with any user having sysdba privilege.
>

Look in the doc for the dbms_sql package. Hardly more complicated than 'execute immediate' for DDL (you declare a handler for the cursor, then it's done in two calls, parse and execute).

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