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Re: PURGE Command SQL or SQL*Plus Command?

From: Alberto Dell'Era <alberto.dellera_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:15:07 +0100
Message-ID: <4ef2fbf50612050915g5705f36fg813408366d6861ff@mail.gmail.com>


On 12/5/06, Ethan Post <post.ethan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> This command is in the 10G SQL documentation, it does not seem to run from
> command line of 9i client, but will work as a PLSQL block.

It is a SQL command (understood by the sql parser), but 9i sqlplus doesn't recognise it a a valid sql command (sqlplus parses the first word to determine whether it is a valid command - "purge" was not coded in 9i sqlplus).

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