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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Instream SQL in an NT Batch script
> I am trying to move a couple of Unix scripts to an NT server. I know
> just about everything needs to change but the scripts use in
> stream SQL
> commands and for some reason NT doesn't like the syntax.
>
> The code is simple just like:
> sqlplus / <<EOF
> select something from somewhere;
> EOF
>
> It complains and says <<EOF not expected here. =20
> Works on Unix and Linux.
>
> What am I missing?
What you are missing on NT is decent scripting language (and no, VB Script aint it either).
Sooner you shake off DOS-batch-ing from your mind, sooner you'll be able to "do stuff" you want or need to do...
By default - anything you try to do via DOS batch will be:
Ugly: read as "unreadable and hard to maintain"
Kludgey: to get DOS batch to do lots of things - you'll have to
wrap your mind around insane constructs
Unreliable: there are ahem, slight but very gotcha differences
between DOS shells across various Win platforms
What I'd do if I had lots of "streamed" scripts I'd want to share between Unix and Windows - I'd rewrite 'em all in Python (or Perl if only I knew it;-) and run one and same set of scripts on both "ends", or write small Python (or Perl) parser and stream existing sql stuff into Python/Perl script that will do the job.
Branimir
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