SQL Syntax check

Question

Hello all,
Is there a way to check sql syntax against the dataabse/table without acctually running against the table ?? If you are familar with RMAN...it has a rman syntax check cmd.. ( RMAN> rman checksyntax )....which will tell you if its a valid statment or not...
is there anything similar for sqlplus ??? i am on 10.2.0.3 on Solrais....Something where i can run select * from emp; but not actually execute the statment against the database ??

Answer 1

For SQLPLUS you can do this.
SQL> set autotrace traceonly ;
SQL> select * from dual ;
Execution Plan
Plan hash value: 272002086
| Id  | Operation         | Name | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT  |      |     1 |     2 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  TABLE ACCESS FULL| DUAL |     1 |     2 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Statistics
         24  recursive calls
          0  db block gets
          6  consistent gets
          4  physical reads
          0  redo size
        407  bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
        380  bytes received via SQL*Net from client
          2  SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
          0  sorts (memory)
          0  sorts (disk)
          1  rows processed
SQL> select * fromm dual ;
select * fromm dual
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expectedSS