Friday, September 26, 2008

Oracle Spool command

The Oracle Spool command is a nice little feature that allows you to record what goes on in your sqlplus session on the fly. Enabling it is simple and can be a very good logging/debugging tool.

To record your sqlplus session commands, simply type:

SQL> spool /tmp/myfile.txt

where myfile.txt is the name you want to give to your log file.
The file will not appear or be usable until you turn off spooling:

SQL> spool off


Voila!

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