- Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to SQL*Plus
- 2. Interacting with SQL*Plus
- 3. Generating Reports with SQL*Plus
- Following a Methodology
- Saving Your Work
- Designing a Simple Report
- Advanced Report Formatting
- Totals and Subtotals
- Other Reporting Topics
- 4. Writing SQL*Plus Scripts
- Why Write Scripts?
- Using Substitution Variables
- Prompting for Values
- Cleaning Up the Display
- Packaging Your Script
- The DEFINE and UNDEFINE Commands
- Controlling Variable Substitution
- Commenting Your Scripts
- 5. Extracting and Loading Data
- 6. Exploring Your Database
- 7. Advanced Scripting
- 8. Tuning and Timing
- 9. The Product User Profile
- 10. Administration with SQL*Plus
- 11. Customizing Your SQL*Plus Environment
- SQL*Plus Settings You Can Control
- The Site and User Profiles
- Environment Variable Settings
- The SET Command
- The SHOW Command
- A. SQL*Plus Command Reference
- SQLPLUS
- Comment Delimiters (/*...*/)
- Double Hyphen (- -)
- At Sign (@)
- Double At Sign (@@)
- Forward Slash (/)
- ACCEPT
- APPEND
- ARCHIVE LOG
- ATTRIBUTE
- BREAK
- BTITLE
- CHANGE
- CLEAR
- COPY
- COLUMN
- COMPUTE
- CONNECT
- DEFINE
- DEL
- DESCRIBE
- DISCONNECT
- EDIT
- EXECUTE
- EXIT
- GET
- HELP
- HOST
- INPUT
- LIST
- PASSWORD
- PAUSE
- PROMPT
- QUIT
- RECOVER
- REMARK
- REPFOOTER
- REPHEADER
- RUN
- SAVE
- SET
- SHOW
- SHUTDOWN
- SPOOL
- START
- STARTUP
- STORE
- TIMING
- TTITLE
- UNDEFINE
- VARIABLE
- WHENEVER
- B. SQL*Plus Format Elements
- Index
- Colophon
The SPOOL command is used to write output to a text file. You must use this if you are going to print a report. The only way to print a report is to spool it to a file, then print that file. See Chapter 3 for an example of SPOOL being used to generate a report file. SPOOL may also be used to generate a new file of SQL commands to be executed. Chapter 7 shows you how to take advantage of that powerful technique.
SP[OOL] file_name|OFF|OUTwhere:
- SP[OOL]
May be abbreviated to SP.
- file_name
Is the name of the file to which you want to write the report. The default extension depends on the operating system, and will be either LST or LIS. Under Windows 95 and NT, it is LST. A path may be specified as part of the filename.
- OFF
Turns spooling off. You must have turned spooling on before you can turn it off.
- OUT
Turns spooling off, and prints the file on the default printer. This option is not available in the Windows versions of SQL*Plus.
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