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Shell: How to time a script running in SQLPlus and kill it after x amount of minutes?

I have a little tool which automatically runs a series of SQL scripts when and outputs to .XLS when an appropriate request is made. However, some SQL scripts need to be ran on a live database, and I ...
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Execute a script with SQLPlus containing blanks, semi-colons, and forward slashes

Occasionally I will get a script that will run fine in SQL Developer or Toad, but requires modification in order to be run successfully from SQL*Plus. Here is a worst case example containing multiple ...
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How can I alter the output for the sql desc command?

When I do desc table, I get back the columns Name, Null? and Type. What I also wish to get back is a column like UNIQUE to tell me if the column is in fact unique. I realize that this is a ...
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Why can't we specify group functions in Oracle in the where clause?

SQL> desc tab1 Name Null? Type ----------------------------------------- -------- ---------------------------- ID ...
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How to differentiate between SQL and PL/SQL?

I know the question might sound too stupid, but I never understood this part. SQL*Plus works with both SQL and PL/SQL. How do I know whether some code is SQL or PL/SQL? If my code has a for ...
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What is the significance of a semicolon at the end of SQL*Plus commands?

Some statements like create table, insert into etc take a semicolon at the end: CREATE TABLE employees_demo ( employee_id NUMBER(6) , first_name VARCHAR2(20) , last_name ...