title: ORA-06550 & PLS-00103 : Encountered the symbol "drop"
body: <p>What's going on here?</p>
  
  <pre><code>DECLARE
    V_COUNT NUMBER(10) := 0;
  BEGIN
  
    SELECT COUNT(*) INTO V_COUNT FROM USER_VIEWS WHERE VIEW_NAME = 'DBO$EVT_APP';
  
    IF V_COUNT &gt; 0 THEN
      DROP VIEW DBO$EVT_APP;
    END IF;
  
  END;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm getting the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error report:
  ORA-06550: line 9, column 5:
  PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "DROP" when expecting one of the following: ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This looks like valid SQL to me. This is my exact code, pasted. </p>