What Is an Anonymous Block?

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An anonymous block is a PL/SQL code block with no name. It consists of three parts:

► Declaration Part - Defining local variables and local procedures. Declaration part is optional.
► Execution Part - Defining execution logic with executable statements. Execution part is required.
► Exception Part - Defining error handling logics. Exception part is optional.

Here how a complete anonymous block should look like:

DECLARE
-- Declaration statements
BEGIN
-- Executable statements
EXCEPTION
-- Error handling statements
END;

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