I did not know that. Thats for this info as well as the rollback info.
-- --Original Message-- --
From: Daniel Fink [mailto:Daniel.Fink@(protected)]
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:12 PM
To: oracle-l@(protected)
Subject: Re: Oracle + Unix question , Error validation for SQL
statements in co process ?.
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Kevin Lange wrote:
> The thing is, the ?$ will not give you anthing but a 0 when you use it
after
> the SQL statement because SQLPLUS finish correctly ... even if the SQL
that
> is ran does not. i.e. The RC of SQLPLUS will always be 0 unless
SQLPLUS
> itself fails.
I must disagree. You can return a numeric value from 0 to 255 (?) from a
sql*plus session. If you return a number larger than 255,
it is the modulus of value/256.
$ echo $?
0
$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba "
SQL > exit 1
$ echo $?
1
$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba "
SQL > whenever sqlerror exit 1
SQL > select * from alskjfajafls;
select * from alskjfajafls
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942 (See ORA-00942.ora-code.com): table or view does not exist
$ echo $?
1
$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba "
SQL > exit 254
$ echo $?
254
$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba "
SQL > exit 255
$ echo $?
255
$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba "
SQL > exit 256
$ echo $?
0
$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba "
SQL > exit 257
$ echo $?
1
$
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