Re: How to call SQLPlus ? Diff between iSQL*Plus ans SQL*Plus ?

From: William Robertson <williamr2019_at_googlemail.com>
Date: 26 May 2007 02:48:45 -0700
Message-ID: <1180172925.442874.28090@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>

On May 26, 1:14 am, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
> William Robertson wrote:
> > On May 15, 9:28 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
> >> There are three different tools:
>
> >> sqlplus.exe
> >> sqlplusw.exe
> >> isqlplus
>
> >> Most people use sqlplusw.exe
>
> > Isn't sqlplusw.exe the crappy obsolete one? You'd hope they would have
> > more sense.
>
> No. sqlplusw is the executable behind the yellow plus sign sitting on
> top of two bluish disks. It is the most common one on Windows.

Yes, apologies, sardonic tone possibly lost on newsgroup.

sqlplusw IS the crappy obsolescent one used by people who don't know any better. AFAIK its "File, Open" menu option is its one useful feature, and even then it's easy enough to drag & drop files into a sqlplus.exe session from an explorer window. It used to have online help too but I think that disappeared a long time ago.

What I generally do is use its tombstone icon for my sqlplus.exe shortcuts:
http://www.williamrobertson.net/documents/sqlplus_setup.html though in XE, sqlplus.exe finally comes with a nice "SQL>" icon (and no crappy pseudo-GUI version). Received on Sat May 26 2007 - 04:48:45 CDT