Question

When I run the following in an Oracle shell it works fine

truncate table table_name 

But when I try to put it in a stored procedure

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE test IS BEGIN     truncate table table_name; END test; / 

it fails with

ERROR line 3, col 14, ending_line 3, ending_col 18, Found 'table', Expecting:  @   ROW  or   (   or   .   or   ;   := 

Why?

Answer 1

All DDL statements in Oracle PL/SQL should use Execute Immediate before the statement. Hence you should use:

execute immediate 'truncate table schema.tablename';