e.g.
alter session set NLS_DATE_FORMAT = “HH24:MI:SS DD.MM.YYYY”

LIST
/

Thanks again!
Joe

thanks for your information.

2) I never used that “.” and LIST thing before and I’m not quite sure what it does nor what’s the difference to simply using a semicolon. Could you explain, what the “.” does and if there is a difference to “;”?
It’s somewhat curious, seems that SQL*Plus has only problems with whitespace before a “.” – if I use a semicolon instead it works and I’ll get the desired result and output. The “.” works only when omitting the leading whitespaces. Again: the malefactor seems to be solely the “.” and it seems to be avoidable by using a “;” instead.

1) Could you mail me or post a bug at sourceforge with a SQL sample. Because the samples I have are all working (except for the “.” thing)

I fear that there wont be a really good fix to this leading whitespace issue. Cause it will involve other issues when I remove all leading whitespaces from all lines generally by Incanto, because in some cases whitespace might be necessary.

I found inlining various things (like SQL) in XML always bit fragile due to these whitespace issues. Therefore either I avoid them (yep ugly indentions) or I use external SQL files, which I found much more comfortable to handle anyway.

Regards, Alex

1) It seems that inline SQL statements that have whitespace at the beginning of the line cause them to fail. If I store these in a separate SQL file and call that it works.

2) I like to use the “dot” command to escape the edit/entry within SQLPLUS followed immediately by the LIST command and forward slash “/” on separate lines.

e.g.
alter session set NLS_DATE_FORMAT = “HH24:MI:SS DD.MM.YYYY”
.
LIST
/

This allows me to have a detailed listing of what statements I want to execute followed by the result messages from SQLPLUS. I like to do this because a spooled log then becomes my documentation of the installation.

Again, this does not seem to work with inline sql statements and I have to use external SQL files. My peference is do everything inline so that I could generate one big build file via a perl DBI script that extracts code from either a CVS repository or the database itself.

I’m hoping you can address these two small issues?

Thanks in advance,
Joe

Follow up to my previous comment here – I reworked my ant task to call SQL*PLUS via the ANT exec task and the problem still occurs.

So, I agree with you – incanto is NOT to blame !!

Sorry about that !

peter

Alex

I am using the incanto task for updating and patching our development database schemas using SQL*PLUS on a windows XP machine.

However, the ant task hangs quite frequently when running SQL*PLUS via incanto. Following the ‘hang’, I am unable to access the internet (or any databases using my Oracle tools).

Have you heard or seen similar problems ?

peter