Re: SQL Plus Question

"Buck Turgidson" <jc_va_at_spamisnotcool.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4lW17.91342$Md.24657494_at_typhoon.southeast.rr.com...
> This seems like a dumb question, but I can't get this to work. Under
> the old version of SQL Plus for Windows on 7.3, when you ran a query,
> you would get a dialog box with a "Cancel" button. So if a query of
> update hung, you could just cancel. In the 8i client version, I don't
> get a dialog box, and the menus aren't active during a query. So if I
> have a runaway query, I have to kill the SQL Plus session.
>
> One other irritation is doing a describe. In 7.3, it would return
> column names and the data types and whether it was null. Now, I just
> get back the columns. I cannot find any settings to change this.
>
> Any help on this would be appreciated.
>
>

As usual in this group this is a post which lacks one important thing: an *exact* specification of platform and version, other than just *8i* I can't seem to understand why it is so difficult to type three digits and two dots, and why this group is expected either to keep track of what everyone is running, or this *guess* what someone is running This is important as I can't seem to reproduce the behavior described in the second question on Personal Oracle 8.1.5 for win 98. As to your first question: whenever you set the pagesize to something very high or zero, the cancel button will not appear anymore.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA Received on Sun Jul 08 2001 - 08:12:38 CDT