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EXECUTE statement
Applies to ❌ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
Many dialects support some way of running dynamic SQL from procedural code. For this, the EXECUTE or EXECUTE IMMEDIATE statements can be used.
In some dialects (e.g. Oracle PL/SQL), using EXECUTE is the only way to run DDL from procedural code.
For example:
-- PL/SQL BEGIN EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CREATE TABLE t (col int)'; END;
// All dialects
create.begin(
execute(createTable("t").column("col", INTEGER).getSQL())
).excute();
You could obviously just pass an arbitrary string to the EXECUTE statement, as in PL/SQL, but the above example shows how to use this approach also with dynamically created jOOQ statements, by calling Query.getSQL().
This statement is not yet widely supported in jOOQ 3.12+.
