Trouble calling .sql script

Question

I have looked on the forum for about a half an hour and can't find the exact answer I'm searching for, so here goes.
I'm trying to update about a 100 records or so through use of an .sql script.
I put the following in my sql script file
UPDATE TABLE1 SET COL_NAME1 = 'some val.', COL_NUM_VAL = 12345, BOOL_VAL_COL = -1
WHERE AUTOID = 9554 OR AUTOID = 1082
OR AUTOID = 1305 OR AUTOID = 133
OR AUTOID = 9124
OR AUTOID = 8712
OR AUTOID = 55 OR AUTOID = 6741 OR AUTOID = 9881
OR AUTOID = 1012 OR AUTOID = 9158 OR AUTOID = 9378
OR AUTOID = 9101 OR AUTOID = 8351 OR AUTOID = 7110 OR AUTOID = 922 OR AUTOID = 732
OR AUTOID = 7253 OR AUTOID = 7825 OR AUTOID = 6772 OR AUTOID = 9854;
commit;however, I get some kind of message back in the SQL Plus prompt showing.
  8  OR AUTOID = 9101 OR AUTOID = 8351 OR AUTOID = 7110 OR AUTOID = 922 OR AUTOID = 732
  9  OR AUTOID = 7253 OR AUTOID = 7825 OR AUTOID = 6772 OR AUTOID = 9854
10* commit;
11  /I can't really discern from this output stmt what happened or what is wrong,
and needless to say, the update query doesn't execute. Any ideas as to what I need to put in there? And can't I just open it up in SQL Plus after I've created the sql file?Or is there more to it than that?
I welcome any feedback.
Thanks!
Message was edited by:
user515689

Answer 1

Hi,
If you have a file called foo.sql that contains just the 10 lines of code that you posted, then you can run it from SQL*Plus by saying "@foo" (depending on where foo.sql is stored. You may actually have give the full path name: e.g.
SQL> @c:\my_folder\sub_folder\fooWhat are you doing to run the script?
By the way, instead of all those ORs you can use the IN operator:
UPDATE TABLE1 SET COL_NAME1 = 'some val.', COL_NUM_VAL = 12345, BOOL_VAL_COL = -1
WHERE AUTOID IN (9554, 1082, 1305, ..., 9854);