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Re: Oracle SQLPlus

Partha — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:53:24 -0000

Wonderful, colors worked! Good great tipe! Thanks.
But also I needed the host name to be in my prompt. Any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks
Partha

Re: Oracle SQLPlus

Eddie Awad — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:10:49 -0000

FARIZA, You can. However, I suggest you use http://forums.oracle.com

Re: Oracle SQLPlus

FARIZA — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:02:23 -0000

May i ask about Views in Oracle in this forum?

thank you
-fariza-

Re: Oracle SQLPlus

acomplia — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:40:56 -0000

How to turn on colors?

Re: Oracle SQLPlus

kinzlaw — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:41:40 -0000

Pradeep, yes I got colors in sqlplus. It's done via vi's Ctrl-v to write the escape sequences to the login.sql, and also, the escape sequence is supported by xterm, which is what I use putty to connect to a Linux box(I guess on Windows it would be a different way to do it or just can't be done). My sqlprompt variable looks like this:
^[[32;47m&_user@&_connect_identifier^[[30m>^[[0;49m
Copy & paste won't work, you should use vi or other editor which is capable of inputing escape sequences instead to get the '^['s to the file.

Re: Oracle SQLPlus

Eddie Awad — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:14:56 -0000

Pradeep, this is the first time I've ever heard that you can even have a colorful SQLPlus prompt! I do question the need for color though. That won't work well with color blind people.

Re: Oracle SQLPlus

Pradeep — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:12:12 -0000

Is it possible to add color to the prompt?

I want different color's for different environments that I use sqlplus on to distinguish them a bit and also add a bit of color to the whole black and white shell.

I tried using control characters that work on the OS I'm using but they get simply printed as is.

Anyone know a wrapper that I can use?

Re: Oracle SQLPlus

Sumi — Wed, 10 May 2006 06:50:19 -0000

I am tring to insert bulk sql statements from syslog-ng into oracle and I find there are more thn 50% lose.

syslog daemon writes "insert statements" to a FIFO pipe, from this pipe another daemon attempts to push insert statements to sqlplus CLI.

syslog-ng daemon config

writes to FIFO pipe /var/run/ora.pipe

destination d_oracle {
pipe("/var/run/ora.pipe"
template("ALTER SESSION SET SQL_TRACE = true;\nINSERT INTO syslogentry (hostname, facility, SEVERITY, MSG_SENT_TIME,p
rogram, message,MSG_RCV_TIME) VALUES ( '$HOST','$FACILITY', '$PRIORITY', to_date('$MONTH $DAY$ $YEAR $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC', 'mm dd
yyyy hh24:mi:ss'), '$PROGRAM', '$MSGONLY',SYSTIMESTAMP);\ncommit;\n") template-escape(yes));
};

we have tried to compare number of event (insert statements) coming on this pipe by writing another script that writes to file.

pipe to db script

!/bin/sh

nohup sqlplus user/pass < /var/run/ora.pipe >> /home/oracle/log.err

pipe to file script

!/bin/sh

nohup cat /var/run/ora.pipe > /logs/debug.log

number of events in files are almost 10 times more than going in db within a given time slot.

can any one help me ?

Regards
Sumit

Re: Oracle SQLPlus

Eddie Awad — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:20:58 -0000

Thanks for the tip Alex. Another reason to upgrade to 10g :)

Re: Oracle SQLPlus

Alex Nuijten — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 04:05:04 -0000

In 10g, it gets even easier:

set sqlprompt `'_user@_connect_identifier > '`

SQL*Plus Command Reference

Re: Oracle SQLPlus

Eddie Awad — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:20:09 -0000

Great links as usual. Thanks Robert.

Re: Oracle SQLPlus

Robert Vollman — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:59:27 -0000

Great article! It works!

I put mine in glogin.sql.