\_ SMTP quoth Trent Shipley on 6/12/2001 12:51 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ We are an all MS shop so this is extra cool.
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\_ M-x shell
\_ C:\windoze> sqlplus username/password@connection_alias
\_ SQL> select * from cool;
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\_ And emacs is much nicer than Oracle's built in sqlplus text tool!

DBI::Shell rocks too.  I created a few different formats and put a
general engine in front of it and now I can do things like:

  | owmyeye /:0:35} ls
  | bin/   dev/  home/  lost+found/  mnt/  proc/  sbin/  usr/
  | boot/  etc/  lib/   misc/        opt/  root/  tmp/   var/
  | owmyeye /:0:36} select count(*) from item
  | +--------+
  | |count(*)|
  | +--------+
  | |   10034|
  | +--------+
  | [1 rows of 1 fields returned]
  | owmyeye /:0:37} /s format vertical
  | ok
  | owmyeye /:0:38} select count ( * ) from item
  | +--------+--------+
  | |count(*)|   10034|
  | +--------+--------+
  | [1 rows of 1 fields returned]
  | owmyeye /:0:39}

Beat *that* with a stick.

David