Re: Table reading utility?

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James Ching <siuc_at_earthlink.net> wrote:

>Sorry for this newbie question. I'm using SQL*Plus for unix.
>I wonder if there is a utility to show records in a table better.
>Currently if a table contains more attrs than a screen can display,
>sqlplus
>breaks one record into multiple lines, which is extremely unreadable.
 

>I wonder if there is any environment variable I can set, or a totally
>different utility I can use to display records better.
>Say, instead of ,
 

> attr1 attr2 ...
> ----- -----
> val1 val2
 

> attn
> ----
> valn
 

>it displays,
 

> attr1 val1
> attr2 val2
> ...
> attrn valn
 

>Thanks
 

>James Ching
>EarthLink Network, Inc.

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