The "" tags bookmark PL/SQL code segments, as the PL/SQL interpreter will read everything between these two tags as code it needs to execute. You can write multiple lines of code between these two ...

As a further comparison, the equivalent Java stored procedure, (which is always dynamic) takes about the same time as the original PL/SQL and the DBMS_SQL with binding.

The EXECUTE statement cannot be stored as part of an SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility query in a PROC SQL view.