Is there a .Net interface to Oracle SQLPLUS?

Question

I\'m developing some automation to control the execution of SQL scripts. The scripts are run through SQL*PLUS and contain PL/SQL calls in t

Answer 1

You can do it in C# with this piece of code:

public int execString(string scriptFileName)
{
   int exitCode;
   ProcessStartInfo processInfo;
   Process process;
   int timeout = 5000;

   processInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("sqlplus.exe", "@" + scriptFileName);
   processInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
   processInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
   process = process.Start(ProcessInfo);
   process.WaitForExit(timeout);
   exitCode = process.ExitCode;
   process.Close();

   return exitCode;
}

In VB.NET you could accomplish the exact same thing, using the same API in the framework, but I don't know much about VB.NET syntax.

You could also try inspecting SQL/Plus DLLs and see if you can get something out of them. But I think that even though it should be a faster (performance wise) approach, it will be way more complicated than using what I am suggesting.