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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Change SQL prompt oracle SQL*Plus (pre 10g)

Here we discussed how to change prompt for release 10g and up. Now we will discuss how to achieve same in pre 10g releases

Enter following commands in glogin.sql file located at $ORACLE_HOME/sqlplus/admin directory or execute them one by one at SQL Prompt.

col username new_value username
col dbname new_value dbname
set termout off
SELECT lower(user) username,
       substr(global_name, 1, instr(global_name, '.')-1) dbname
FROM   global_name
/
set termout on
set sqlprompt '&&username@&&dbname> '

1 Comment:

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