Question

I have some SQL scripts for Oracle and I wonder to know exactly what is the objective of the following line:

REM INSERTING into TABLE_NAME

After this line I get the inserts for the table.

Insert into TABLE_NAME (ID,ENUM_KEY,NAME,DESCRIPTION) values (3,3,'T_EXIT_POINT','T_EXIT_POINT');
Insert into TABLE_NAME (ID,ENUM_KEY,NAME,DESCRIPTION) values (4,4,'T_CONDITION','T_CONDITION');

Anyone can explain me this REM INSERTING, or where to find documentation about it?

Answer 1

REM, or short for REMARK, is used in SQL*Plus to indicate the beginning of a comment in a SQL script. Read more about REM in the documentation here.

Instead of

 REM INSERTING into TABLE_NAME 

I suggest you use PROMPT

 PROMPT INSERTING into TABLE_NAME 

That way the script output would contain the string “INSERTING into TABLE_NAME”.

More about PROMPT here. It’s especially useful when you have ECHO OFF.