PL/SQL Basic Syntax, Block Structure and Anonymous block

PL/SQL is highly structured language and it's program units are written in the block of code, In this tutorial, we'll learn about basic syntax and the block structure of PL/SQL

A piece of code that is organized in a properly defined sequence is called a Block. A PL/SQL Block consists of 3 parts

DECLARE
<<declaration >>
--Declare Variables,Constants, Cursors and all elements

BEGIN
<<executable statements>>
--SQL, PL/SQL Commands 

EXCEPTION
<<exception handling>>
--Code to handle the exception

END;

Enable DBMS_OUTPUT in Oracle SQL Developer

I hope all of you'll be familiar with Oracle SQL Developer tool , A tool used by database developers to perform DB related tasks efficiently

DBMS_OUTPUT package of PL/SQL enables user to show/print some debugging information and used by learners to run and check small chunks of pl/sql code

Here we'll see how to enable DBMS_OUTPUT package in SQL Developer