Stop SQL*Plus Complaining About Whitespace

Question

In SQL*Plus, if you execute the following using @:

create table someTable (
  someID            number,

  somethingElse     varchar2(50),
  somethingRelated  number
);

...it will complain with something like:

SP2-0734: unknown command beginning...
...
...

This is because it doesn't like the empty line between the someID and somethingElse column definitions. However, leaving that line makes the source code look a lot more readable.

Is there some flag/option to stop it doing this? I don't want to get rid of all the whitespace in my code. (If not, I'll just use SQL Developer, which has no problem with the spacing.)

Answer 1

I should have Google'd this first :P

SET SQLBLANKLINES ON;

...fixes the problem.

See http://nerdydeeds.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/sp2-0734-oracle-sqlplus/