I enabled output with SET SERVEROUTPUT ON Oh yeah, and this is Oracle 10.2.0.4 on the server, using an 11g client SQL*Plus. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > How did you enable output? > > On 9 Mar 2011 15:45, "Dennis Williams" <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > List, > > I recently wrote a SQL script containing a PL/SQL anonymous block. I used > DBMS_OUTPUT to sent results to the screen. This worked fine when I copied > and pasted the script into a SQL*Plus session. However, when I just hit "r" > to rerun the script, I noticed that it produced no output. Later I passed > this to a user who ran it using Toad and got no output. Can anybody tell me > what (isn't) going on? > > The reason I used PL/SQL in this manner is that I needed more logic than > SQL itself could provide. In our environment, creating database objects > requires a lot of red tape, but we have a read-only account that can be used > to run queries or ad-hoc scripts. > > Thanks, > Dennis Williams > >