Oracle sql commands use

Question

my question is will it possible to use oracle sql commands in toad and genterate the reprot like I have below.
my second question is can I embede this oralc sql command in my apps. to have the out put I have below. I tried and got an error message. I am wondering if this is possible
SQL> -- Multiple COMPUTEs are also allowable.
SQL>
SQL> SET echo off
SQL> BREAK ON city skip1 ON start_date
SQL> COMPUTE sum max min of salary ON city
SQL> COMPUTE sum of salary ON start_date
SQL> SET verify off
SQL> SELECT id, first_name, salary, city FROM employee ORDER BY city
  2  /
ID   FIRST_NAME     SALARY CITY
07   David         7897.78 New York
06   Linda         4322.78
                   4322.78 minimum
                   7897.78 maximum
                  12220.56 sum
01   Jason         1234.56 Toronto
                   1234.56 minimum
                   1234.56 maximum
                   1234.56 sum
05   Robert        2334.78 Vancouver
08   James         1232.78
03   James         6544.78
02   Alison        6661.78
04   Celia         2344.78
                   1232.78 minimum
                   6661.78 maximum
                   19118.9 sum

Answer 1

Hi,
All of theose SQL*Plus features can be duplicated in Oracle SQL. For example, "GROUP BY ... ROLLUP" can give you an minimum, maximum and total for each city.
You can create a view that looks exactly like the SQL*Plus output (for example, the city column with values like 'New York', NULL, '**********', and 'minimum'), if you really need to. CASE is very useful for things like this, as are some analytic functions. (E.g., ROW_NUMBER can help in telling which is the first row for each city.)
To make such a view, you may find it convenient to do a UNION of two queries:
(1) One that produces one row per employee
(2) One that produces a fixed number of rows (four, to get the results you posted) per city