Executing SQL Scripts

TOAD allows you to execute SQL and SQL scripts as scripts. This will display the output of the script in the Script Output tab in the results panel; see Figure 3.35. This might be convenient when working with scripts so you don’t have to exit the TOAD environment to run scripts in SQL*Plus, for example.

Figure 3.35. Executing a SQL statement as a script.

F5 executes the current SQL statement as a script.

The script output gives you the output that the script will produce, not just the data. Figure 3.36 shows a short SQL*Plus ...

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