RE: SQLPlus -- replacement tool

From: John Flack <JohnF_at_smdi.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:08:33 -0500
Message-ID: <91AFBA9B76078B4E8340A383EADEF1DB7EE53B@syn2kex1.smdi.com>

Even though you directed this at Cary, and I'm interested in seeing his = response, here are a few things I'd like to see:

The usual set of control structures, but lets start with an "if = else" so that I can write conditional execution.
A way to set default values for substitution variables.
I know how to get the result of a single row query into variables, = but I'd like an easier more straightforward method, like: SELECT to_char(SYSDATE) INTO today;

-----Original Message-----

From: Juan Cachito Reyes Pacheco [mailto:jreyes_at_dazasoftware.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:26 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: SQLPlus -- replacement tool

Could you please give an example of how you would like the tool work = like.
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From: "Cary Millsap" <cary.millsap_at_hotsos.com> To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 6:01 PM
Subject: RE: SQLPlus -- replacement tool

Juan,

It's an issue of writing a complete interactive application, which is just really nasty in sqlplus. Dbms_output is inadequate on the output side, and using "&" and "&&" in the input side is even worse than that...

"Nullius in verba" means, "Don't take anybody's word for it." It has been the motto of the Royal Society of England for a few centuries.

Cary Millsap
Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.
http://www.hotsos.com
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