SQL*Plus Commands
Its funny how many people forget we support a lot of the basic SQLPlus functionality in SQL Developer. For example, today, Paulo blogged on how to stop scanning for substitution variables in a script.
He rightly pointed to the deprecated ‘SET SCAN OFF’ and the current ‘SET DEFINE OFF’ to fix his problem.
We support a lot of plus parameters in SQL*Plus and are adding more on each release. For now, though, if you are using SQLDeveloper and are looking for the current settings in the worksheet, you can use the ‘show all’ command which shows the state of any parameters that are in force at that time.
e.g., The default will give you this.
appinfo is OFF and set to “SQL Developer”
arraysize default
autocommit OFF
autoprint OFF
autotrace OFF
copycommit 0
define “&”
echo OFF
escape OFF
FEEDBACK ON for 6 or more rows
null “”
serveroutput OFF
spool OFF
sqlcode 0
termout ON
timing OFF
USER is HR
verify ON
For supported SQL*Plus commands you can also use ‘help’ command which lists the commands supported. e.g.,
For help on a topic type help
List of Help topics available:
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ACCEPT
APPEND
ARCHIVE LOG
CHANGE
COLUMN
CONNECT
COPY
DEFINE
DEL
DESCRIBE
DISCONNECT
EDIT
EXECUTE
EXIT
GET
HOST
INPUT
LIST
PASSWORD
PAUSE
PROMPT
QUIT
REMARK
RESERVED WORDS
RUN
SAVE
SET
SHOW
SHUTDOWN
SPOOL
SQLPLUS
START
STARTUP
TIMING
UNDEFINE
VARIABLE
WHENEVER OSERROR
WHENEVER SQLERROR
XQUERY
I’ll follow this up with another post of the SQLDeveloper 3.1 functionality where we are supporting more of the printing functionality around column formatting and titles.