Beginning SQL

Appendix B
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Figure B-87
Another option is to select Options ➪ Environment and set the autocommit option to On.
You don’t need MyTable again in this book, so delete it by executing the following statement:
DROP TABLE MyTable;
You add all the example tables and data to the Film Club database in Chapters 1 and 2. Note that if you
download the book’s code files, you need to load them into SQL*Plus using the START command. The
files contain more than one SQL statement, each separated by a semicolon. If you load the files by selecting
File ➪ Open, then SQL*Plus treats all lines in the file as one big statement and you receive an illegal
character error message where the first semicolon appears. Instead, to load a file, type the following
statement:
START file_name
For example, if the file to insert film data is called FilmsTable_Data.txt and is located in your Z:
drive under the BeginningSQL\Chapter2 directory, you would need to type the following command:
START Z:\BeginningSQL\Chapter2\FilmsTable_Data.txt
Doing so loads and executes the SQL statements in that file.