Re: Re Re: Due apologies for DDLs

Cyril Thankappan wrote:
>
> U r right ..I still dunno 'much' about perl..
>
> as for dbms_metadata
>
> it is a built in pl/sql package
>
> saying
>
> 'select dbms_metadata.get_ddl(object_type,object_name,schema_name) from dual;
>
> gives the entire ddl creation script.
>
> However, 'interestingly'
> execute dbms_metadata.get_ddl does not work
> as well!
>

Everything which works as select blahblah() from dual cannot work as execute blahblah() (and vice versa). One is for functions (which return something, in that case a string) and the other for procedures, which return nothing. Do not get confused by the use of dbms_output.put_line().

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