How to customize SQLPlus prompt

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April 28th, 2005, 02:09 PM

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How to customize SQLPlus prompt

How can one edit the SQLPlus prompt to show the time or username? Also, is there anything special you need to do to get Oracle to show you how much time has elapsed for a command like below?

Code:

22:23:29 SQL> create index [...]

Index created.

Elapsed: 01:22:35.29
23:46:18 SQL>

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April 28th, 2005, 03:42 PM

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If you want sqlplus to show elapsed time you have to run

Code:

SQL> set timing on

And from ORAFAQ

Quote:

The following example script changes the prompt to include the connected username and database:

Code:

	 undefine usr db
	 col usr new_value usr
	 col db  new_value db

	 set termout off
	 select lower(user) usr,
	        substr(global_name, 1, instr(global_name, '.')-1) db
	 from   global_name
 	 /
	 set termout on

	 set sqlprompt '&&usr.@&&db.> '

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Last edited by pabloj : April 28th, 2005 at 03:46 PM.

April 29th, 2005, 02:47 AM

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Thanks pabloj

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