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Comment Delimiters (/*...*/)

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/* 
comment_text
comment_text
comment_text
*/

The /* and */ delimiters set off a comment in SQL*Plus. Comments entered this way may span multiple lines. If you use /*...*/ in a script file, the comments are displayed on the screen when the script is executed. For example:

/* SQL*Plus script written 7-Jan-2000 
   by Jonathan Gennick. */

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