Read this chapter while sitting at your computer and try out the examples shown. Before beginning, make sure you have access to the sample tables described. To begin using SQL*Plus, you must first ...

See the START command for more information. You have the option of entering logon. If you do not specify logon and do specify start, SQL*Plus assumes that the first line of the command file contains a ...

Oracle9i offers some great tools to make it easy to view the execution plan and trace information for a SQL statement. Prior to Oracle8i, you had to create a plan table and execute special syntax to ...