Question

I’m testing a script which deletes a series of values in SQLDeveloper. To be safe, I had SQLDeveloper generate Insert statements for all existing data, so I could restore it if something went wrong. One of the statements is like:

Insert into MY_TABLE (KEY,VALUE) values ('key1','https://somewhere.com/index.html?param1=value1&param2=value2&param3=value3');

When I run this statement, again in SQLDeveloper, it prompts me to enter values for param2 and param3, as if the & is a signal for interaction. Is there a way to turn this off?

Answer 1

I think you need the following at the start of your script:

SET DEFINE OFF;

I’ve seen references to SET SCAN OFF as well, but turning off DEFINE has always worked for me.