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37 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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sqlplus is not starting
I have a strange error on a Red Hat machine.
InstantClient is installed in and ORACLE_HOME is set to /opt/oracle/product/112030_cl_64/cl/
The user which installed the client was oracle:oinstall. My ...
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SQL*Plus fail instead of prompting for substitution variable
Imagine a file test.sql with the following content
SELECT '&myvar' AS greeting FROM dual;
When we run that file in sqlplus. We will be prompted for the value of the variable &myvar since it's ...
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How to turn on the expanded mode in Oracle SQL*Plus?
As in the switch \x of PostgreSQL.
For more information on the PostgreSQL expanded mode, fetch https://serverfault.com/questions/618642/psql-expanded-mode-equivalency-for-mysql.
Both PostgreSQL and ...
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oracle sqlcl and sqlplus - seperate login.sql on linux
I feel I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I can't see an easy way to have a separate login.sql for sqlplus and sqlcl
This is problematic for me as the errors thrown up by sqlplus for the ...
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How to trim trailing spaces from headers in Oracle 12.1 SQLPLUS
I am creating a pipe-delimited file from a SQLPLUS query (Oracle 12.1), and the recipients are requesting that I trim the trailing spaces from the header entries. That is, the current output file ...
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Conditional flow in sqlplus
I have script for SQL plus, which I use to create user and get arguments for username and password.
I want the script to do more things when it runs on oracle 12c, but I'm trying to avoid writing ...
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Why is there a difference in CSV Export Results of Oracle SQL Developer and SQL Plus Spool
When I export data from SQL Developer GUI, setting format: csv, left enclosure: ", right enclosure: ", and Encoding: UTF8, I get data exactly the way that I need it for processing in Python.
However,...
datasci
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Export Oracle Database User data from client
I am working on client system. There is a database on server contains many users. I have the access to database with a userid and password. my userid is "ncon" and Database name is 'HYDPPD'.
We are ...
Santhosh Kumar
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My subdirectories under $ORACLE_HOME are missing
Im using oracle 11g. I cannot access the software products since they are missing. When I cd to $ORACLE_HOME, there are no files under it. They are missing. I cannot access the sqlplus. What to do in ...
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Check Oracle Service is Started from Batch Command
Uses: Oracle9i Standard Ed;
I have a schedule which performs a Dump Import and afterwards the System Reboots itself, which is happening without any problem.
After the System had rebooted, I have ...
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sqlplus column header misaligned
In wide sqlplus reports, column headers get misaligned from the data
The code that led to this output was:
set linesize 32767
set trimspool on
col z format a1
alter session set nls_date_format='...
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sqlplus connects to my Oracle server only on "second try"
My Oracle DB used to work fine but lately I have the following problem:
When I try to connect with sqlplus with a non-interactive command as the following, from the very machine I deployed my DB on,
...
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listener issues in oracle 19c
These are my listener.ora and tnsnames.ora files
listener.ora
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(GLOBAL_DBNAME = dr_DGMGRL)
(ORACLE_HOME = /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/...
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Oracle colsep is adding newlines. Why?
So, I have a script:
set heading off;
set feedback off;
set linesize 10000;
set newpage NONE;
set colsep '~'
whenever sqlerror exit 1;
WHENEVER OSERROR EXIT 255;
select TO_CHAR(je.key_date, 'YYYY-MM-...
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ignore column width in sqlplus
I'm getting the follow
SQLPLUS> create table source(aa nvarchar2(2), bb nvarchar2(100), cc nvarchar2(10));
insert into source values ('aa',null,'aa');
insert into source values (null,'aa','aa');
...
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How to return SQLPLUS Null as \N
I have a script that moves that from one DB to another by a SQL.
I'm querying from one side and load it into another. TSV style.
I'm expanding that script now to support Oracle as a source.
For that ...
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What’s wrong with provided apex instance administrator password
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I have installed Oracle Database 21c Enterprise Edition on Oracle windows 10 I am now trying to install Apex 22.2 .
Got to the chapter "5.4.2.3 Running apxchpwd.sql" to set the instance ...
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problem with services in automatic restart
I am working on Oracle 19c. I have a problem with the services I created via:
alter system set service_names=' exemple1, exemple2' scope=both;
I have many services to create and I am limited to 255 ...
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How to we get history of sql statements of sysdba?
We have been running a list of commands in cli: sqlplus / as sysdba
We did not have "history on" and we logged out of the session. How do we get the list of sql statements we ran before as ...
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How to use CLOB datatype for storing limitless characters in column each rows?
I want to use CLOB datatype instead of varchar2(4000) and long, in which I want store limitless characters . However, its easy to declare the string based column to CLOB but the main problem is when I ...
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sqlplus is not working, it is frozen
When I type
sqlplus / as sysdba
It simply gets frozen, the cursor stays there, and I can type more character but after pressing enter nothing happens. Neither CTRL + C. My pmon service is running, ...
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How to store data in loop and after assign data set to out ref cursor in Oracle
I tried to store date in loop and after that dataset set to OUT SYS_REFCURSOR. In this time I declared array variable and I tried to store data in loop by each iteration. and after, I want to assign ...
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Is it neccesary to shutdown the oracle database before uninstalling
I have a requirement of deleting/uninstalling a installed oracle 11g database on a Linux machine and I follow the below steps to uninstall the database.
Kill all processes runs with user oracle.
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Silence Sqlplus Login Message but Retain Echo
Running a series of automated checks on our databases for the security folks checking our STIG compliance. Mostly simple stuff like certain parameters turned off, etc. We're in the stone ages, so this ...
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Direct, simple SQL query results in "ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated"
All the information I've seen on this issue is always in regards to running a query via some other utility (e.g. TOAD); however, I am seeing this issue when I simply try to select * from v$asm_disk; ...
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Import .dmp file into Oracle Database
Guys. When I tried to import a .dmp file into a fresh oracle database (sqlplus), I got this error.
dump file "exp_tbs_gxplt01282019.dmp" may be an Data Pump export dump file
My step is:
SQL> ...
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WHENEVER OSERROR suppresses error messages
$ sqlplus <connstring> 2>&1 <<!
WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT FAILURE ROLLBACK;
WHENEVER OSERROR EXIT FAILURE ROLLBACK;
SET ECHO ON;
@nonex.sql;
!
Produces
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 ...
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execute .sql script inside an anonymous pl/sql block which is invoked by a shell script
I got a shell script which connects to SQLPLUS and executes the .sql file like below:
read a
x=`echo $a | cut -d , -f 1`
y=`echo $a | sed 's/.*,//'`
c=`echo $USER | cut -c -2`"OPR"`echo $USER | ...
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ORA-03114 Unable to connect to remote Oracle database
I have an Oracle Database installed on Oracle Linux Server which I'm trying to connect to from my PC. I have configured the listener in the following way
[oracle@ol8ngs1 ~]$ lsnrctl status
LSNRCTL ...
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Don't echo a single command in SQL*Plus
If I have a script like this...
SET ECHO ON
SELECT 'I want the person reading the spool to see this whole query.'
FROM DUAL
WHERE interesting_logic_ = 'DEBUGGABLE';
SET ECHO OFF
PROMPT I only ...
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Sqlplus not using NLS_LANG env variable
I am trying to login to an Oracle 10g database vía sqlplus.
In the nls_session_parameters I need NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE in American, but I always have Spanish.
In the database server my NLS_LANG is ...
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Create tablespace "error in creating database file, access denied (OS 5)"
I try to create a database file in this location
I've checked the route and everything, I've tried several times to create the tablespace like this...
...but as you can see, I was just lead to ...
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ORA-32000: write to SPFILE requested but SPFILE is not modifiable
I'm not able to alter the SORT_AREA_SIZE in my database.
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import .dmp in Toad : Invalid format of Import utility name Verify that ORACLE_HOME is properly set
When I tried to import a DMP file using TOAD (9.0.1) Import Utility Wizard I get an error
Invalid format of Import utility name Verify that ORACLE_HOME is
properly set
Any suggestions please?
I ...
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How to use mariadb instead of sqlplus using sqlnet configuration files
currently I can access a database on a remote server using
Oracle's instant client "sqlplus"
The connection is dependent on a couple of configuration files in:
$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
which are ...
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Error while updating a date column using SQL*Plus variable
I am not able to update the date time which I have already stored in a variable and I am trying to update the another record with date time present in that variable.
last_update_time=`sqlplus -s user/...
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1
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Oracle database - how to switch instance
I'm totaly new in oracle, so sorry for my probably stupid question... I have two instances on oracle server, when I'm connecting to the server via sqlplus in default opens connection to instance X but ...
