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sql vs isql*Plus [message #236136] Wed, 09 May 2007 02:57 Go to next message
knight07
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Hello all: I am confused with the two statements that I read in an oracle training material"
"SQL: retrieves data: manipulates data and table definitions in the database".
"iSQL*Plus: Does not allow manipulation of values in the database".

I always use iSQL*Plus and it seems that I'm manipulating values in the database using SQL statements . . .
what am I not getting in the second statement?
Re: sql vs isql*Plus [message #236144 is a reply to message #236136] Wed, 09 May 2007 03:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michel Cadot
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Source? Post links.

Btw, SQL is a language, iSQL*Plus is a tool.

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Re: sql vs isql*Plus [message #236150 is a reply to message #236136] Wed, 09 May 2007 03:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
knight07
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Thanx Michel:
The source is an oracle training material, "Oracle Database 10g: SQL Fundamentals I Volume I. Student Guide" p 1-22.
What I did't get is that how the isql*plus commands do not allow manipulation of values in the database!
What then am I doing when using DMLs and DDLs and 'commit' in specific?

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Re: sql vs isql*Plus [message #236152 is a reply to message #236150] Wed, 09 May 2007 03:34 Go to previous message
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Ask teacher what this sentence means.
Of course, DML "manipulates" values and can store them in database and iSQL*Plus is designed to make DML.

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