Answer:

Because the output is buffered. It will not print until the first buffer is
flushed. There seems to be a dbms_debug package now. I never used that, but
you would expect that would work differently.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Question:

> Hi,
> I was wondering why does pl/sql print the dbms_output statements
> after executing the procedure. why cannot it work like any other
> language and make our lifes easy.
>
> Thanks
> Anurag