Re: sql parser that accepts statements on stdin?

Why not just write your generated SQL scripts to a .SQL file and then run it? This seems a simply answer so have I missed soemthing?

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Alan D. Mills

Sweth Chandramouli wrote in message ...
> is there some tool (or hidden switch on sqlplus) that will
>connect to an oracle db in a unix environment and run commands that
>were passed to it on stdin, as opposed to being read from a file?
>i've got a lot of tasks that i would like to automate, but which
>require dynamically building many of the statements to be run and/or
>making ddl statements, so straight pl/sql won't work. i've taken a
>glance at the dbms_sql package, and would rather just use my existing
>knowledge of other scripting languages like perl to build all of the
>statements and then just execute them once, rather than learning the
>dbms_sql syntax (i'm suffering from a bit of syntax overload as it is,
>and one more won't help). i would really rather not depend on temp
>files, however, for both security and data integrity reasons, and
>can't figure out any way to get my commands to actually execute
>without writing them out to a file and then having sqlplus read them.
>
> tia for any suggestions.
>
> -- sweth.
>
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>Sweth Chandramouli
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Received on Thu Dec 03 1998 - 05:18:45 CST