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

It took me a while to figure out how to make it all work so here is the result of my investigations:

c# code:

ORAUtils.execString(@"c:\tmp.sql 'Oracle sucks!'");
...

using System.Diagnostics; -- where the Process stuff lives
...
public static int execString(string scriptFileName)
{
 ...
 ProcessStartInfo processInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
 processInfo.FileName = "sqlplus.exe";
 processInfo.Arguments = "user/pwd@db @" + scriptFileName;
 ...
 Process process = Process.Start(processInfo); // typo in code above small p instead of caps helps
 ...

Resulting command line:

sqlplus.exe user/pwd@db @c:\tmp.sql 'Oracle sucks!'

Type sqlplus /? in a dos prompt and you'll get the syntax:

sqlplus

Here logon=user/pwd@db and start=@c:\tmp.sql 'Oracle sucks!'

It will start the sql file and pass it the parameter string.

tmp.sql first line:

prompt &1

will display the parameter string.

Thx