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Re: newbie struggling to get help with certain commands

From: sybrandb <sybrandb_at_gmail.com>
Date: 14 Feb 2007 02:35:04 -0800
Message-ID: <1171449304.877065.129090@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>


On Feb 14, 1:17 am, sean nakasone <seannakas..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Why is it that when i do a 'help index', certain commands are not listed?
> like 'create', 'commit'. And these commands are not in the oracle
> tutorials either, seehttp://www.oracle.com/technology/docs/tech/sql_plus/index.html.
>
> Are these commands different from the others?

You need to distinguish between SQL (defined in the SQL reference manual) and SQL*Plus. Your link points to SQL*Plus. The sql*plus information doesn't contain any info about SQL. Sql*plus doesn't contain any info on SQL since 7.0 in 1994, as the info would have become too voluminous.

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Wed Feb 14 2007 - 04:35:04 CST

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