Well, people are trying to use SQL*Plus as if it was a report generating
tool, which it isn't.
To tell the truth, I started using perl because of its formatting
capabilities (I hope you still
do remember the old &ora_login stuff from perl4?) because my report looked
so much nicer
then with sqlplus. I don't have running sums, but they're rarely needed. On
the other hand,
I can do left and right justification, top of the page format, multiline
fields (impossible to do
with sqlplus) and a lot of other good stuff, like conditional printing
(that's why perl has
"if" statement). The ideal thing for generating pretty reports out of any
database is called
perl. It's cheap, it's well documented ("Learning Perl", "Perl Programming",
"Perl Cookbook",
"Perl for Oracle DBA", "Advanced Perl Programming", "Perl for Sys Admins",
"Perl Objects,
References & Modules","Learning Perl Tk", "Object Oriented Perl
Programming", I have a
whole shelf devoted to perl.I have a hunch that when Cary's book gets into
the circulation,
there will be another book on that shelf. If that is not a well documented
language, then I
don't know what is) and is ideally suited for the purpose. Yet, people are
still using sqlplus.
Why? It beats me.
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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Use something like
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$id, $empname
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