Tuesday, March 06, 2012

SERVEROUTPUT

Set serveroutput off/on can be used in SQL*Plus to control the output from the PL/SQL dbms_output.put_line statement. When you first login the default is for serveroutput to be off:

SQL> show serveroutput
serveroutput OFF
SQL>

If serveroutput is set to off, you will not get any output from dbms_output.put_line:

SQL> begin
  2  dbms_output.put_line('12345678901234567890');
  3  end;
  4  /
 
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
 
SQL>

Setting it to on changes this:

SQL> set serveroutput on
SQL> show serveroutput
serveroutput ON size 2000 format WORD_WRAPPED
SQL> begin
  2  dbms_output.put_line('12345678901234567890');
  3  end;
  4  /
12345678901234567890
 
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
 
SQL>

There is also a size associated with serveroutput. This specifies the volume of output allowed. In Oracle 9 this can have any value between 2000 and 1000000:

SQL> set serveroutput on size 1999
SP2-0547: size option 1999 out of range (2000 through 1000000)
SQL> set serveroutput on size 1000001
SP2-0547: size option 1000001 out of range (2000 through 1000000)
SQL>

I will set it to 2000 for the example below although, as you can see above, this appears to be the default. When you reach the limit set by the size parameter, Oracle displays an error and stops:

SQL> set serveroutput on size 2000
SQL> declare
  2  a number;
  3  begin
  4  a := 1;
  5  while a < 100
  6  loop
  7  dbms_output.put_line(a||' Andrew Reid, International DBA');
  8  a := a + 1;
  9  end loop;
10  end;
11  /
1 Andrew Reid, International DBA
2 Andrew Reid, International DBA
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declare
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-20000: ORU-10027: buffer overflow, limit of 2000
bytes
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_OUTPUT", line 35
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_OUTPUT", line 198
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_OUTPUT", line 139
ORA-06512: at line 7
 
SQL>

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