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Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference
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Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference

by Darl Kuhn, Scott Schulze
November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
126 pages
3h
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Running SQL and O/S Commandsfrom Within RMAN

Sometimes you may want to run an SQL statement from within RMAN. Use RMAN’s sql command to do this. For example:

RMAN> sql "alter system switch logfile";

If there are single quote marks in your SQL, you need to use two single quote marks as shown in this next example:

RMAN> sql "alter database datafile 
  ''/d0101/ordadta/brdstn/users_01.dbf'' offline";

You can also run O/S commands using a similar technique with the host command:

RMAN> host "ls";

Some SQL commands, such as ALTER DATABASE, are directly supported by RMAN. These can be executed directly from the RMAN command prompt, without using the sql command. For example:

RMAN> alter database mount;

Note that the complete syntax of the SQL ALTER DATABASEcommand is not supported from within RMAN. Refer to Section 1.9 for RMAN-supported ALTER DATABASE syntax.

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