Mladen,
Even I use sqlplus for some reporting.
There's even a perl script in "Perl for Oracle DBA's" that is a driver for sqlplus.
Why? For the things that are missing in Perl that I needed for some reporting.
Mostly the column breaks. There is no convenient module yet for doing that
in Perl. I started one for Perl, but never finished it. Not enough oop experience
for the complexity of what I was trying to do ( breaks and sums ). Have a working
prototype, but far from finished. Just ran out of time for it.
Sqlplus does still have it's place.
Jared
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Well, people are trying to use SQL*Plus as if it was a report generating tool, which it isn't.
To tell the truth, I started using perl because of its formatting capabilities (I hope you still
do remember the old &ora_login stuff from perl4?) because my report looked so much nicer
then with sqlplus. I don't have running sums, but they're rarely needed. On the other hand,
I can do left and right justification, top of the page format, multiline fields (impossible to do
with sqlplus) and a lot of other good stuff, like conditional printing (that's why perl has
"if" statement). The ideal thing for generating pretty reports out of any database is called
perl. It's cheap, it's well documented ("Learning Perl", "Perl Programming", "Perl Cookbook",
"Perl for Oracle DBA", "Advanced Perl Programming", "Perl for Sys Admins", "Perl Objects,
References & Modules","Learning Perl Tk", "Object Oriented Perl Programming", I have a
whole shelf devoted to perl.I have a hunch that when Cary's book gets into the circulation,
there will be another book on that shelf. If that is not a well documented language, then I
don't know what is) and is ideally suited for the purpose. Yet, people are still using sqlplus.
Why? It beats me.
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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LOL!
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Use something like
FORMAT STDOUT=
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$id, $empname
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