On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 12:44:56PM -0700, Jared Still wrote: > Will SQLMinus be capable of doing 'breaks' and 'compute sum'?
I intend to add this support, just haven't had time yet. > > The report formatting abilities of SQL*Plus are hard to beat. Very true, that's one reason I started the work on SQLMinus. When I'm not working on Oracle, I miss some of the features in SQL*Plus. > Perl is great for many things, but SQL*Plus is still much much better > at some aspects of report formatting. I've used Perl to write a driver > to SQL*Plus for just that reason. > > It would be wonderful to have all of those capabilities available > as pure Perl. This is the goal ... I'm not sure if I have all the SQL*Plus options. Tom > On Wednesday 17 April 2002 17:54, Thomas A. Lowery wrote: > > Well, it's not officially released, but there is a module with > > DBI::Shell called DBI::Shell::SQLMinus and DBI::Format::SQLMinus. It > > contains the basic sqlplus style syntax for reporting. > > > > The biggest advantage is the formatting syntax is the same across any > > database DBI connects with (using dbish). My goal is replace my need > > for sqlplus with something that works on any database I connect to. If > > you're interested, I'll send you the tarball for the latest > > development version. > > > ... -- Thomas A. Lowery See DBI/FAQ http://xmlproj.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/fom
