Is there any way to flush output from PL/SQL in Oracle?

Question

I have an SQL script that is called from within a shell script and takes a long time to run. It currently contains dbms_output.put_line statements at various po

Answer 1

Two alternatives:

1. You can insert your logging details in a logging table by using an autonomous transaction. You can query this logging table in another SQLPLUS/Toad/sql developer etc... session. You have to use an autonomous transaction to make it possible to commit your logging without interfering the transaction handling in your main sql script.

2. Another alternative is to use a pipelined function that returns your logging information. See here for an example: http://berxblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/pipelined-function-vs-dbmsoutput.html When you use a pipelined function you don't have to use another SQLPLUS/Toad/sql developer etc... session.