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问题:
We have been having some debate this week at my company as to how we should write our SQL scripts.
Background: Our database is Oracle 10g (upgrading to 11 soon). Our DBA team uses SQLPlus in order to deploy our scripts to production.
Now, we had a deploy recently that failed because it had used both a semicolon and a forward slash (/). The semicolon was at the end of each statement and the slash was between statements.
alter table foo.bar drop constraint bar1; / alter table foo.can drop constraint can1; /
There were some triggers being added later on in the script, some views created as well as some stored procedures. Having both the ; and the / caused each statement to run twice causing errors (especially on the inserts, which needed to be unique).
In SQL Developer this does not happen, in TOAD this does not happen. If you run certain commands they will not work without the / in them.
In PL/SQL if you have a subprogram (DECLARE, BEGIN, END) the semicolon used will be considered as part of the subprogram, so you have to use the slash.
So my question is this: If your database is Oracle, what is the proper way to write your SQL script? Since you know that your DB is Oracle should you always use the /?
回答1:
It's a matter of preference, but I prefer to see scripts that consistently use the slash - this way all "units" of work (creating a PL/SQL object, running a PL/SQL anonymous block, and executing a DML statement) can be picked out more easily by eye.
Also, if you eventually move to something like Ant for deployment it will simplify the definition of targets to have a consistent statement delimiter.
回答2:
I know this is an old thread, but I just stumbled upon it and I feel this has not been explained completely.
There is a huge difference in SQL*Plus between the meaning of a / and a ; because they work differently.
The ; ends a SQL statement, whereas the / executes whatever is in the current "buffer". So when you use a ; and a / the statement is actually executed twice.
You can easily see that using a / after running a statement:
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Wed Apr 18 12:37:20 2012 Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production With the Partitioning and OLAP options SQL> drop table foo; Table dropped. SQL> / drop table foo * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
In this case one actually notices the error.
But assuming there is a SQL script like this:
drop table foo; /
And this is run from within SQL*Plus then this will be very confusing:
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Wed Apr 18 12:38:05 2012 Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production With the Partitioning and OLAP options SQL> @drop Table dropped. drop table foo * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
The / is mainly required in order to run statements that have embedded ; like a CREATE PROCEDURE statement.
回答3:
I wanted to clarify some more use between the ; and the /
In SQLPLUS:
; means "terminate the current statement, execute it and store it to the SQLPLUS buffer";), it means, store the statement to the buffer but do not run it./ after entering a statement into the buffer (with a blank RUN or R is a sqlsplus command to show/output the SQL in the buffer and run it. It will not terminate a SQL Statement./ during the entering of a D.M.L. or D.D.L. or PL/SQL means "terminate the current statement, execute it and store it to the SQLPLUS buffer"
NOTE: Because ; are used for PL/SQL to end a statement ; cannot be used by SQLPLUS to mean "terminate the current statement, execute it and store it to the SQLPLUS buffer" because we want the whole PL/SQL block to be completely in the buffer, then execute it. PL/SQL blocks must end with:
END; /
回答4:
Almost all Oracle deployments are done through SQL*Plus (that weird little command line tool that your DBA uses). And in SQL*Plus a lone slash basically means "re-execute last SQL or PL/SQL command that I just executed".
See
http://ss64.com/ora/syntax-sqlplus.html
Rule of thumb would be to use slash with things that do BEGIN .. END or where you can use CREATE OR REPLACE.
For inserts that need to be unique use
INSERT INTO my_table () SELECT FROM dual WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT FROM my_table WHERE )
回答5:
From my understanding, all the SQL statement don't need forward slash as they will run automatically at the end of semicolons, including DDL, DML, DCL and TCL statements.
For other PL/SQL blocks, including Procedures, Functions, Packages and Triggers, because they are multiple line programs, Oracle need a way to know when to run the block, so we have to write a forward slash at the end of each block to let Oracle run it.
回答6:
I only use the forward slash once at the end of each script, to tell sqlplus that there is not more lines of code. In the middle of a script, I do not use a slash.
