Re: how to avoid & prompting in sql+?

Like you, I haven't checked the SQL*Plus manual, but I think the command you want is SET DEFINE OFF.

Martin

Sharkie wrote:

>I have a text file with lots of insert statements. The textual values
>of the varchar columns are provided through some other script.
>Sometimes the strings contain the "&" char, so when executing
>the insert statements in sql+ I'm always prompted for a value.
>
>Is there a way to avoid this prompting? I'd like sql+ to consider this
>char as any other char and just insert it. I could do a global replace
>in the text file replacing the "&" with some other character,
>before running it, but isn't there a setting in sql+ to ignore it?
>
>the db is 8.1.7 run on Solaris
>(but I also use a test db: 8.1.7 on Win2K)
>
>
Received on Thu Nov 14 2002 - 18:30:48 CST