Problem running oracle script from command line using sqlplus

Question

I\'m having a problem trying to run my sql script into oracle using sqlplus. The script just populates some dummy data:

DECLARE 
  role1Id NUMBER;
  user1Id          


        

Answer 1

The command line

sqlplus username/password@server/dbname @Setup.sql

mentioned above means that sqlplus should execute the script Setup.sql and wait further commands interactively (if script does not do exit explicitly). This is a normal behavior of sqlplus.

sqlplus terminates in three cases:

• Failure (for some errors you can change if it terminates or not. See WHENEVER plsql-command)
• Explicit exit (both interactive and sript)
• End of STDIN (EOF)

Either from interactive mode or from script you can send ^Z character to softly terminate input flow. Interactively you just press Ctrl+Z,Enter.

And, of course, you may redirect STDIN, and take it from file, not from keyboard. There are two similar ways to do this:

1) sqlplus username/password@server/dbname

In both cases sqlplus will terminate after the script execution because of EOF in the input flow.