Execute SQL*Plus scripts or raw SQL Support for substitution variables and environment variables Bind variables support for raw SQL execution Various SQL*Plus options (SYSDBA, SYSOPER, silent mode, ...

The Oracle SQL*Plus product has introduced some new features that have long been missing from this utility program, and some to support the new features. Here's a rundown of the new features in Oracle ...

Oracle SQL*Plus has a very useful subparameter to the column parameter called NEW_VALUE. The NEW_VALUE directive allows you to store data retrieved from an Oracle table as a variable inside the ...

(defvar sql-oracle-characterdatatypes '("varchar2" "char" "clob" "date" "nvarchar2" "nchar" "nclob") "List of Oracle database datatypes which have character syntax ...

Major upgrade to the ever-evolving Oracle Database brings JavaScript support, graph optimizations, in-memory enhancements, and dramatic improvements to JSON operations and in-database machine learning ...

So because god hates me, I have to work with Oracle. Which means I need to re-learn SQL Plus. I knew how to get around it back in the day, but since then I have used modern RDBMS's and have become ...

Oracle's namesake database management system has a data type called a CLOB, or Character Large OBject. Though the standard character data type, called CHAR, has a size limit of 2,000 characters, you ...