| I looked these up in the SQL*plus Reference Manual.
ROTH/ROTH is username/password. Nice to have this revealved !!!
Per the SQL*plus manual, all SET and SPOOL commands are SQL*plus
commands. Whether there exists equivalent functionality on the
SQL standard, I do not know. Specifically, here's what they do:
SET ECHO ON causes all commands (ANSI SQL or SQL*plus) to be displayed
on the terminal
SET TERMOUT ON causes all lines to be displayed on the terminal
once the query is complete or as it is executing
SET TIME ON causes the date and time to be displayed prioir to the
execution of each entry (so you can measure that good performance
!!)
SPOOL SQL5.ROT causes the result of the query to be written to a
file named SQL5.ROT.
Don't know about the update command. Maybe the SQL folks can answer.
I don't know what a marco means but I view this a just another
command procedure. You can probably do all the same things with
Rdb, SQL, etc. So, I guess that means that Rdb has macro too.!!!
--gerry
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