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BREAK specifies where changes occur in a report and the formatting action to perform, such as:

• suppressing display of duplicate values for a given column
• skipping a line each time a given column value changes
• printing computed figures each time a given column value changes or at the end of the report (in combination with compute)

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Syntax

BRE[AK] [ON report_element [action [action]]] ...

where:

• report_element has the following syntax:

 
{column | expression | ROW | REPORT}

• action has the following syntax:

[SKI[P] n | [SKI[P]] PAGE] [NODUP[LICATES] | DUP[LICATES]]

Example

See SQL Plus - Formatting Reports