Re: A better SQL*Plus -- what features should it have?

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:19:15 -0000
Message-ID: <3dca4c33$0$8507$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net>


"Guido Konsolke" <Guido.Konsolke_at_Triaton.com> wrote in message news:1036665852.225126_at_news.thyssen.com...
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> Niall Litchfield wrote (and I quote)...
> >A prompt that tells you reliably what database you are on.
>
> Yepp, finding out how to do it and put that in the login script took a
> while...
> loooong time ago...
In my book modifying login or glogin.sql *isn't* reliable because of the [Quoted] existence of the connect and conn commands. IMO having a prompt that could be misleading you is worse than having a prompt that doesn't tell you anything.

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Niall Litchfield
[Quoted] Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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