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RE: SQLPlus -- replacement tool

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:45:50 -0800
Message-ID: <OF2EE86FC5.E637F40F-ON88256E40.00618768-88256E40.00618011@radisys.com>


Cary,
Have you investigated dbish?

It installs with DBI.

Jared

"Cary Millsap" <cary.millsap_at_hotsos.com> Sent by: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
 02/20/2004 07:02 AM
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I'm interested in this conversation because scripting in sqlplus is so horrific. The SQL optimization harness we've written to sit atop sqlplus is 10x more lines of code that we want it to be, and it still fails to offer basic features that we'd expect from a real scripting language.

For example, you I don't think you can test whether a variable (e.g., a command line arg) has been set without prompting for its value if its value is undefined. Stuff like that...

So, to twist the conversation slightly, is there a more decent sqlplus-like scripting tool out there? What I'd love to find is a sqlplus-alike that lets me use Perl or Korn shell syntax instead of just SQL and the meager set of sqlplus set commands...

Cary Millsap
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:17 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: SQLPlus -- replacement tool

I use "vim". It has "set syntax=oracle" command, or, my favorite, "set syntax=perl",
and it isn't as expensive as UltraEdit32. I have yet to find an editor capable of
supporting regular expressions as well as "vi". And you know what: it's everywhere
where I go. There is a "vi" version for everything, with the possible exception of
IBM mainframe. IBM mainframes have been appropriately named: the latest and the greatest
is called "T-Rex" (not a joke, it's true). Asteroid is traveling fast and Jurassic is
coming to an end.

On 02/20/2004 09:00:07 AM, "Freeman, Donald" wrote:
> I use UltraEdit32. Its a programming text editor with about 1000
built =
> in functions. I think a single license copy is $35. It supports sql
and =
> pl/sql syntax highlighting, column editing (which I used extensively
to =
> create a million sql statements at a time), very large file support, =
> built in ftp client, regular expressions, most unix like functions,
like =
> grep, sort, uniq, multiple clipboards, templates, macros. You can edit
=
> in hex, ascii, ebcdic, unix, mac. It has won several awards. I have =
> been using it in combination with sqlplus for five years. I have both
=
> TOAD and DBArtisan but prefer Ultraedit. It's possible that it can be
=
> linked directly to sqlplus. I know you can run programs from it but =
> haven't tried to link it. You can make it your default editor. It has
=
> improved my sql productivity 100%. =20
>



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