I think it is little bit different in TOAD. You have to manually enable dbms output in TOAD prior to running the script. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Dennis Williams < oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 >> >> >