SQLcl: Run a Query Over and Over, Refresh the Screen

I was going to talk about our new IMPORT command in SQLcl. This will allow you to feed a delimited text file of data to our command line interface and have it automatically imported to a table.

But Kris Rice beat me to it. Woo-hoo, less work for me Image may be NSFW.
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So go read that now.

If you read far enough, you’ll see a really cool video on how to create a session monitor in SQLcl.

By the way, we updated it, and have a new EA build for you to play with. DOWNLOAD IT NOW

I’m going to show a simpler example – just a timer using SYSTIMESTAMP.

SET sqlformat ansiconsole
SELECT systimestamp FROM dual;
repeat 15 0.55

Run that.

And you’ll get this.

Pretty cool, huh?

Just run your query – that will put it into the buffer. As in, if I hit ‘/’ – it will run again.

You can also put a query into the buffer using the history command.

Saying ‘history 2′ would put the 2nd item in your SQL History into the buffer.

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You’re gonna love, love, love the history command in SQLcl

Then run the repeat command.