Re: SQLPLUS and equivalents

Check out TOAD and SQL Navigator, both from www.quest.com. Of the two TOAD more of a full development tool, while SQL Navigator is lighter to use. We use SQL Navigator 3.11, not the current release 4.0 precisely because you can do loads of stuff with one click or function key.

"Laurence Barwick" <barwick_at_gmx.co.uk> wrote in message news:99pqes$28i30$1_at_ID-37705.news.dfncis.de...
>
> a wet-behind-the ears newbie writes:
>
> I am making my first hesitant steps in the wonderful world of Oracle, some
> of which involve intensive contact with a nice little utility called
> SQLPLUS (or however it is written, I'm sure I've left out an asterisk
> somewhere ;-)
>
> My question is: is it possible to configure SQLPLUS to use such niceties
 as
> command-line history and editing? As is (fire-and-forget one-line editing)
> it reminds me all too vividly of the days when MS-DOS was little more than
> an upstart rival to CP/M ...
>
> My second question is: are there any other client-style programs
 equivalent
> to SQLPLUS? Preferably text console-based, although no doubt something
 GUIey
> would suffice. I seem to recall glimpsing the name of some such beast
> during the installation (I currently have 8.1.6 on Linux), can't for the
> life of me find it.
>
> I would be very happy to RTFM if someone would give me a pointer to which
> of the many FMs I should R ;-)
>
>
> Yours
>
> Laurence Barwick
>
Received on Wed Mar 28 2001 - 04:00:36 CST