Re: Did the query return any rows

"IANAL_VISTA" <IANAL_Vista_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Xns965EB230B9ADFSunnySD_at_68.6.19.6...
> "Randy Harris" <randy_at_SpamFree.com> wrote in
> news:1q8ke.90$3V.58_at_newssvr31.news.prodigy.com:
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> > I'm calling SQL*Plus to run a query from inside a Unix (ksh) script.
How
> > can I tell whether the query returned any rows or not?
> >
> >
>
> By making "proper" use of SQL*Plus & the ability to generate a SPOOL file,
> I test for non-zero length of the output file. In other words zero rows
> results in a spool file of length 0. I use this approach daily in cron
jobs
>

I'm running the jobs from cron and generating spool files. It didn't occur to me that the file would be 0 length. I assumed that it would contain the message "no rows selected". Thanks. Received on Sun May 22 2005 - 19:47:43 CDT