I had occasion on stackoverflow.com to work out an approach I’d long used: WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT FAIL ROLLBACK set echo on COLUMN programstartdate FORMAT A45 column column_value format a45set serveroutput on<<REINITIALIZE>> BEGIN FOR DOIT IN ( SELECT ‘DROP TABLE ‘ || TABLE_NAME AS CMD FROM USER_TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = ‘WFDISPLAYMGMT’) LOOP […]