How about using "spool filename append" and "spool off" in the body of your loop? Of course, I'm not sure how you're constructing your loop, so I'm not sure if this will work or not... ===================================== Jim Silverman Senior Systems Database Administrator Solucient, LLC - A Thomson Company Telephone: 734-669-7641 FAX: 734-930-7611 E-Mail: jim.silverman@xxxxxxxxxxx From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thotangare, Ajay (GTI) Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:23 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Run command on sqlplus repetitively without reconnection. I want to run a command on sqlplus without making re-connection. At the same time I also want to see the output. I can do this using UNIX but only problem is I have to make reconnection after every interval(which I don't want) For e.g I run following script on unix prompt ######################################################### while true do sqlplus -S "/as sysdba" <<EOF select event,count(*) from v$session group by event; exit; EOF sleep 2 done ######################################################### I want to achive same functionality without making reconnection after every 2 secs. I tried to use loop,spool file and dbms_lock.sleep() but spool file does not display output till the procedure is completed Can anybody help to achive this functionality ? regards, Ajay If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here <http://www.ml.com/email_terms/> for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l