Re: Sleep in PL/SQL?

From: Scott Urman <surman_at_oracle.com>
Date: 1996/03/15
Message-ID: <4ica07$eon_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>#1/1


In article <31485a70.3698155_at_nntp.ix.netcom.com>, chuckh_at_ix.netcom.com (Chuck Hamilton) writes:
|> Is there any way to tell PL/SQL to sleep for X seconds before
|> proceeding to the next line of code?
|> --
|> Chuck Hamilton
|> chuckh_at_ix.netcom.com
|>
|> If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
Yep. Use the DBMS_LOCK.SLEEP procedure. It takes the number of seconds as an argument. I believe that you can even specify fractions of a second.

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Scott Urman
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Received on Fri Mar 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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