Used to size a page. Currently this is only used by the pagination control in the SQL HELP command.
1 – Environment
You can use the SET PAGE LENGTH (or SET PAGESIZE) statement: o In interactive SQL o Embedded in host language programs o As part of a procedure in an SQL module or other compound statement o In dynamic SQL as a statement to be dynamically executed
2 – Format
(B)0[m[1;4mSET[m[1m [1;4mPAGE[m[1m [1;4mLENGTH[m[1m qqqqq> integer qqqqqq> [m [1m [m
3 – Examples
This example uses the SET PAGE LENGTH command to change the pagination length of HELP. SQL> set page length 40; SQL> show display Output of the query header is enabled Output of the row counter is enabled Output using edit strings is enabled Page length is set to 40 lines Line length is set to 80 bytes Display NULL values using "NULL"