Re: August PL/SQL Tip of the Month: SQL*Plus Prompt Change

From: Dennis <dennis_at_bearclaws.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:39:57 -0500
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FYI,
I had to do a
grant select_catalog_role to user
from SYS to get this to work.

campbell_white_at_my-deja.com wrote in message = <7p95jk$40r$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>August's Tip of the Month
>
>A common request in the world of SQL*Plus is to change the prompt to
>reflect information about the environment, such as the Oracle instance.
>Mike Ault, RevealNet Oracle Administration Knowledge Base author,
>offers this code to accomplish the prompt change:
>
>column xdb_name new_value xdb noprint;
>select name||': ' xdb_name from v$database;
>set sqlprompt &xdb
>
>You can put these three lines inside your glogin.sql or login.sql
>scripts so that the prompt is set when you start up SQL*Plus (note that
>when you CONNECT from within SQL*Plus to another schema you will have
>to run one of these files manually to reset the prompt).
>
>So there's one example of a SQL*Plus prompt change. Please visit the
>"PL/SQL Pipeline" http://ww.revealnet.com/plsql-pipeline.htm if you
>have any other useful prompt settings that you would like to share. If
>so, please go to Pipetalk and add your entry in the new FAQ conference
>under the "Modifying the SQL*Plus prompt" posting.
>
>Thanks, Steven Feuerstein
>--------------------------------------------------
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<DIV>FYI,</DIV>
<DIV>I had to do a</DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=3D#ff0000>grant select_catalog_role to =
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