How to put pause in an SQL script.

I am using Oracle 11g. I run an sql script called Queries.sql. The script has a lot of create and insert statements. I want to put a few delays in the execution of the script (eg. 5 second delays) so that I can watch the output as the script is being executed. How to do this?

Hi,
EXEC dbms_lock.sleep (5);will pause for 5 seconds. You may not have EXECUTE privileges on dbms_lock; if not, log on as SYS and grant them, or ask your DBA to grant them to you.
Another thing you can do is the SQL*Plus command:
ACCEPT dmy PROMPT "Press [Enter] to continue ..."which will wait indefinitely for the user to press the [Enter] key before continuing.
Edited by: Frank Kulash on Apr 26, 2011 7:59 PM

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