This post is the second one of three that together are an introduction to scripting in SQLcl.Also read part 1 and part 3. The title of this blogpost is (supposedly) a quote from Mark Twain, and I completely agree with it.I was reminded of this quote when I was working on the subject of this blogpost. In SQL*Plus you can’t read the contents of a client file.Well, to be honest, you can do “get scriptname.sql” to place the contents of a SQL script in the execution buffer.Or you could copy the file you want to read to the server and use utl_file or an external table definition.But other than that, nothing.No way to just read the contents of any client file. Ok, SQL*Plus is limited, no news there.Let’s turn to the favorite command line tool of the 21st century, SQLcl. SQLcl is capable of reading client files and processing them. … Continue reading →