I would guess because it's not part of PL/SQL.
The DBMS_SQL package and 'EXECUTE IMMEDIATE' both send
your SQL to the database engine.
You may recall the the engine running PL/SQL is separate from the
DBMS engine, at least through 8i.
Jared
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Hi List,
Why it is not allowed to write DDL(e.g. create table)
in PL/SQL directly,
but same can be done using DBMS_SQL package.
Curious
Sam
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