How to wait for 2 seconds?

Question

How does one cause a delay in execution for a specified number of seconds?

This doesn\'t do it:

WAITFOR DELAY \'00:02\';

What is th

Answer 1

Try this example:

exec DBMS_LOCK.sleep(5);

This is the whole script:

SELECT TO_CHAR (SYSDATE, 'MM-DD-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') "Start Date / Time" FROM DUAL;

exec DBMS_LOCK.sleep(5);

SELECT TO_CHAR (SYSDATE, 'MM-DD-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') "End Date / Time" FROM DUAL;