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How To Define an Anonymous Block?

An anonymous block must have an execution part, which is a group of other PL/SQL statements enclosed in the BEGIN ... END statement. Here is a script on how to define a simple anonymous block with SQL*Plus:

SQL> set serveroutput on;

SQL> begin 
  2    dbms_output.put_line('Hello world!'); 
  3  end;
  4  /
Hello world!

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

"set serveroutput on;" allows dbms_output.put_line() to work.

"/" runs the anonymous block, which print the "Hello world!" message.

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1. What Is PL/SQL?
2. What Are the Types PL/SQL Code Blocks?
3. How To Define an Anonymous Block?
4. How Many Anonymous Blocks Can Be Defined?
5. How To Run the Anonymous Block Again?
6. What Is a Stored Program Unit?
7. How To Create a Stored Program Unit?
8. How To Execute a Stored Program Unit?
9. How Many Data Types Are Supported?
10. What Are the Execution Flow Control Statements?
11. How To Use SQL Statements in PL/SQL?
12. How To Process Query Result in PL/SQL?
13. How To Create an Array in PL/SQL?
14. How To Manage Transaction Isolation Level?
15. How To Pass Parameters to Procedures?
16. How To Define a Procedure inside Another Procedure?
17. What Do You Think about PL/SQL?