Oracle PL/SQL string compare issue

Question

I have the following Oracle PL/SQL codes that may be rusty from you guys perspective:

 DECLARE
 str1  varchar2(4000);
 str2  varchar2(4000);
 BEGIN
   str1:         


        

Answer 1

To the first question:

Probably the message wasn't print out because you have the output turned off. Use these commands to turn it back on:

set serveroutput on
exec dbms_output.enable(1000000);

On the second question:

My PLSQL is quite rusty so I can't give you a full snippet, but you'll need to loop over the result set of the SQL query and CONCAT all the strings together.