######### in sqlplus

Hello:
I'm using oracle 10g developer release for windows 2003 server AMD64.
When a command in sqlplus as below:
SQL> select value from v$mystat;
VALUE
what does ######## means.
Thanks

Yep.. I tried as Yogesh as suggested and here is my sqlplus snapshot:
SQL> set numwidth 40
SQL> select value from v$mystat where statistic# = 133;
VALUE
SQL> set numwidth 50
SQL> select value from v$mystat where statistic# = 133;
VALUE
##########

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However it seems as though the begin block cannot reference the value returned to :l_ret_sts.
Any ideas.
Ian.

Managed to solve this. I put my call to the package that the role enables via dynamic sql....
sqlplus -s /@${L_DB_SID} <<-ENDOFSQL >> ${L_LOGFILE}
SET FEEDBACK OFF
SET PAGES 0
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT SQL.SQLCODE
WHENEVER OSERROR EXIT 2
VARIABLE l_ret_sts NUMBER;
VARIABLE l_ret_msg VARCHAR2(300);
exec dbms_application_info.set_client_info('CONTROL-M');
exec sh_plsql_owner.sh\$secure_batch.p\$set_role(p_ret_sts => :l_ret_sts);
declare
v_text varchar2(500);
begin
if :l_ret_sts > 0 then
dbms_output.put_line('l_ret_sts:'||:l_ret_sts||':SECURITY');
else
v_text := 'begin ${L_PLSQL_PROG}(p_ret_type => 0, p_ret_sts => :1, p_ret_msg => :2);end;';
execute immediate v_text using in out :l_ret_sts, in out :l_ret_msg;
dbms_output.put_line('l_ret_sts:'||NVL(:l_ret_sts,0));
dbms_output.put_line('l_ret_msg:'||:l_ret_msg);
end if;
end;
exit
ENDOFSQL
Cheers
Ian.

I*sqlplus: Internal error (no valid library could be found)

Hello
I have installed Oracle 8.1.7 on Windows NT
and Oracle 8.1.7 on Sun Sparc Solaris.
On Windows NT, I have installed i*sqlplus.
However, when connecting from browser
in the index file
I've given a valid username/password of
a database in Oracle 8.1.7 on Sun Sparc
and a connect string to the database
on Oracle 8.1.7 on Sun Sparc.
This connect string is created using
Net 8 assistant and this connect string
is on the Windows NT with Oracle 8.1.7.
However, instead of connecting I
am getting the error
Internal error : (no valid library could be found)
Can you please help me?
Thanks

Cyril,
Can you connect to the database using the command line version of SQL*Plus? If so, you're using the correct syntax.
It sounds like iSQL*Plus is not set up correctly. Do you have the necessary 8.1.7 components on the NT machine (Oracle HTTP Server, Net8, SQL*Plus)?
Review the installation documentation, and/or post more specific information on your set up.
Alison
iSQL*Plus Team

Problem with sqlplus with whitespace in the path of the @ command

I'm running Oracle 11g on Linux and I'm trying to run a script which will create my database. This script runs fine on windows, but when I test it on Linux, I get the following error:
SP2-0556: Invalid File NameThe problem may be that the path to the file name has a space in it. I'm going to simplify the problem down to one of the many commands I run in the file to make it simple. The sample command I'm trying to run looks like this:
sqlplus [uname]/[pw] @'../database/My Schema/create_sequence.sql'the create_sequence.sql file has two simple create sequence commands that run fine by themselves. I strongly suspect it is due to the white space because when I change the directory name from My Schema to MySchema and alter the above sqlplus command accordingly, the script runs fine.
Like I said, this script works in windows with the spaces, but not in Linux. I suspect spaces may not be supported, but I was wondering if anyone knew any different or it there is a work-around?
side note: running a command like:
more ../database/My\ Schema/create_sequence.sqlor
more '../database/My Schema/create_sequence.sql'prints the contents of the file to the console as you would expect. So, I think this is sqlplus (and linux) specific.
Edited by: user10887698 on Jul 28, 2009 4:21 PM
code markup!!!

user10887698 wrote:
I'm running Oracle 11g on Linux ...
..when I change the directory name from My Schema to MySchema and alter the above sqlplus command accordingly, the script runs fine.i really can't see why you are considering this as a problem.
On linux, you can't create directory that contains spaces between letters, like let say : fol der. Doing a mkdir fol der would create two folders,
one named fol and the other named der.
By information you provided , it's obvious that the exact and the correct full path to the create_sequence.sql file is ...database/MySchema/create_sequence.sql.
Can you position yourself in the directory where create_sequence.sql file is and type pwd to confirm the correct path?

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