Oracle-L: RE: Why DDL is not allowed in PL/SQL

From: Alroy Mascranghe <alroy_at_informatics.lk>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:03:19 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004960AF.20020711230319@fatcity.com>

Maybe it is to maintain transaction consistency, bcos the DDLs issue a commit implicitly. So if u do in the middle of DML-transaction it might mess up the transaction as a whole.

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Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:58 AM
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Hi List,
Why it is not allowed to write DDL(e.g. create table) in PL/SQL directly,
but same can be done using DBMS_SQL package.

Curious
Sam

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