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CONTINUE statement
Applies to ❌ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
A safer way to jump to labels than via GOTO is to use EXIT (jumping out of a LOOP, or block, or other statement) or CONTINUE (skipping a LOOP iteration).
Just like Java's continue, the CONTINUE statement skips the rest of the current iteration in a loop and continues the next iteration. Some dialects use the ITERATE statement for this.
Without a label
-- PL/SQL LOOP i := i + 1; CONTINUE WHEN i <= 10; END LOOP;
// All dialects loop( i.set(i.plus(1)), continueWhen(i.gt(10)) )
With a label
-- PL/SQL <<label>> LOOP i := i + 1; CONTINUE label WHEN i <= 10; END LOOP;
// All dialects
Label label = label("label");
label.label(loop(
i.set(i.plus(1)),
continue(label).when(i.le(10))
))
Notice that continue is a reserved keyword in the Java language, so the jOOQ API cannot use it as a method name. We've suffixed such conflicts with an underscore: continue_().
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
loop(i.set(i.plus(1)), continueWhen(i.gt(10)))
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, Oracle, Postgres, YugabyteDB
LOOP i := (i + 1); CONTINUE WHEN i > 10; END LOOP
BigQuery
LOOP
SET i = (i + 1);
IF i > 10 THEN
CONTINUE;
END IF;
END LOOP
DB2, HSQLDB, MariaDB, MySQL
alias_1:
LOOP
SET i = (i + 1);
IF i > 10 THEN
ITERATE alias_1;
END IF;
END LOOP
H2
for (;;) {
i = (i + 1);
if (i > 10) {
continue;
}
}
Hana
WHILE 1 = 1 DO
i = (i + 1);
IF i > 10 THEN
CONTINUE;
END IF;
END WHILE
Informix
LOOP
LET i = (i + 1);
IF i > 10 THEN
CONTINUE;
END IF;
END LOOP
Snowflake
LOOP
i := (:i + 1);
IF (:i > 10) THEN
CONTINUE;
END IF;
END LOOP
SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer
WHILE 1 = 1 BEGIN
SET @i = (@i + 1);
IF @i > 10
CONTINUE;
END
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Databricks, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, MemSQL, Redshift, SQLite, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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