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Oracle: DBMS_OUTPUT

Send messages from stored procedures (poor man's debugging)

Procedures

disable
enable
get_line
get_lines
get_lines
new_line
put
put_line

See also

dbms_pipe allows to send messages between two or more sessions.
Oracle DBMS PL/SQL packages
Turning on dbms_output in SQL Developer.
See also the menu View -> Dbms Output.
$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/dbmsotpt.sql
In order to automatically enable dbms_output in SQL Developer, the value of Filename for connection startup script, found under the menu Tools -> Preferences -> Databases might be set to a script that contains set serveroutput on.
outon.sql is a most simple SQL script to be put into a $SQLPATH directory. It «enables» dbms_output in SQL*Plus.

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