Dbms_stats Error from Enterprise Manager

Question

A job is scheduled to do dbms_stats on a 10g R2
In the PL/SQL Block it has:
begin
exec dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats ( ownname => 'myTest', options => 'GATHER', estimate_percent => dbms_stats.auto_sample_size, method_opt => 'for all columns size auto', cascade => true, degree => 7 );
exec dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats ( ownname => 'myDev', options => 'GATHER', estimate_percent => dbms_stats.auto_sample_size, method_opt => 'for all columns size auto', cascade => true, degree => 7 );
end;
The error is
ORA-06550: line ORA-06550: line 2, column 8: PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "DBMS_STATS" when expecting one of the following: := . ( @ % ; The symbol ":=" was substituted for "DBMS_STATS" to continue. ORA-06550: line 3, column 6: PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "DBMS_STATS" when expecting one of the following: := . ( @ % ; The symbol ":=" was substituted for "DBMS_STATS" to continue. , column :
how to fix it?

Answer 1

You don't use EXEC inside a pl/sql block.
Example.
TUBBY_TUBBZ?exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(user, 'PARTY_TIMES');
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
begin
exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(user, 'PARTY_TIMES');
  3  end;
  4  /
exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(user, 'PARTY_TIMES');
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-06550: line 2, column 6:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "DBMS_STATS" when expecting one of the following:
:= . ( @ % ;
The symbol ":=" was substituted for "DBMS_STATS" to continue.
begin
   dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(user, 'PARTY_TIMES');
end;
  4  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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