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Chapter 5 – Creating SQL and XQuery scripts 175
Figure 5.24 – Validate database object reference error in a DML statement
5.3.3 Changing the statement terminator
When you have multiple statements in an SQL script, each statement must be separated
from the one that follows by a statement terminator. By default, the SQL and XQuery editor
uses a semicolon (;) as the statement terminator. You can change the default statement
terminator for all scripts that you create in the editor by specifying the new default
statement terminator in Window -> Preferences.
You can specify a statement terminator for a specific script in the Validation tab. The
statement terminator that you set in an SQL script persists every time that you open the
script in the SQL and XQuery editor.
In a given script, you can use only one statement terminator. That is, all the statements in
an SQL script must use the same statement terminator. When you set the statement
terminator in an SQL script that contains existing statements, the editor does not update
the existing statement terminators automatically. Instead, you must manually update all of
the existing statement terminators in the script.
Figure 5.25 shows an example of the syntax validation error that occurs after you set the
statement terminator to an exclamation point (!), and do not update an existing statement
terminator. You will get an unexpected token error if you run the script after you stop
validating the syntax.