The code listing for 02-employeeIds.sql demonstrates turning off query results feedback, header information, and page separation in the SQL*Plus results and also explicitly exits from SQL*Plus.

Previously, the glogin.sql and login.sql files were executed only once during login to SQL*Plus. In Oracle 10g, the glogin.sql and login.sql are run whenever you connect to a new user.

So because god hates me, I have to work with Oracle. Which means I need to re-learn SQL Plus. I knew how to get around it back in the day, but since then I have used modern RDBMS's and have become ...