Re: PL/SQL -- huh?

From: Joe Panico <jpanico_at_netcom.com>
Date: 1995/09/15
Message-ID: <jpanicoDEy7Kp.9xp_at_netcom.com>#1/1

Peter Moore (pt_at_chaff.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: In article: <433sd3$2k0_at_zippy.cais.net>  randyd_at_cais.com (Randy Dewoolfson) 
: writes:

: >
: > Another - slightly older trick - is to
: >
: > SELECT "Output String" FROM DUAL;
: >
: > to get something to the screen...
 

: Not in PL/SQL, Randy. All you'd get is "PL/SQL successfully completed."

That's funny, I get:
SELECT "Output String" FROM DUAL;

                       *

ERROR at line 4:
ORA-06550: line 4, column 24:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "FROM" when expecting one of the following: . ( , * _at_ % & - + / mod rem <an identifier> <a double-quoted string> an exponent (**) into || Resuming parse at line 4, column 33.

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Joe Panico
NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer
BLaCKSMITH Inc.

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Received on Fri Sep 15 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST