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Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide
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Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide

by Jonathan Gennick
March 1999
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
14h 39m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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PAUSE

The PAUSE command is most commonly used from script files, and prompts the user to press the ENTER key before the script can continue:

PAU[SE] [pause_message]

where:

PAU[SE]

Is the command, which may be abbreviated to PAU.

pause_message

Is an optional message you want displayed to the user. It’s generally a good idea to include a message telling the user to press ENTER, lest they think the system has locked up on them.

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