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Re: Cursor to drop all tables

From: IDEDWARDS <idedwards_at_aol.com>
Date: 06 Jan 2000 21:44:15 GMT
Message-ID: <20000106164415.01136.00000104@ng-fj1.aol.com> 





You can't perform DDL in a PL/SQL block (create, drop, truncate etc.). You can
make use of the dbms_sql package to perform dynamic sql which should get around
your problem.



Alternatively, you could use SQL*Plus to create a 'drop' script which could
then be run to drop all necessary tables.



Ed
Received on Thu Jan 06 2000 - 15:44:15 CST












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