Creating Report and Group Summaries
What would a report be without summaries and computations? Let's just say that you would have one frustrated programmer. Certain commands in SQL*Plus allow you to break your report into one or more types of groups and perform summaries or computations on each group. BREAK is a little different from SQL's standard group functions, such as COUNT() and SUM(). These functions are used with report and group summaries to provide a more complete report.
BREAK ON
The BREAK ON command breaks returned rows of data from a SQL statement into one or more groups. If you BREAK ON a customer's name, by default, the customer's name will be printed only the first time it is returned, and then left blank with each row of data ...
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