The Oracle SQL*Plus product has introduced some new features that have long been missing from this utility program, and some to support the new features. Here's a rundown of the new features in ...

Oracle SQL*Plus has a very useful subparameter to the column parameter called NEW_VALUE. The NEW_VALUE directive allows you to store data retrieved from an Oracle table as a variable inside the ...

How to Create a CLOB in Oracle. Oracle's namesake database management system has a data type called a CLOB, or Character Large OBject. Though the standard character data type, called CHAR, has a ...

SQL Plus is just a command line monitor. The Oracle offical reference documentation is useful if you want to learn what it can do for formatting and the like, which isn't very much.