>> Cut'n'paste! Amen! >> save the resulting text file >> come back to it when a similar scenario comes up. Ahh, personal notes...I'm amazed to find how many DBA's will do and learn the same thing over and over. >> with a hopefully meaningful name=20 Got a love W2K dir/file search capabilities...use it daily on my own files. Good to see I'm not the only one...you don't want to know how many personal DBA notes, doc, html file I have saved over the past 6 years. Chris Marquez Oracle DBA HEYMONitor(tm) - heymonitor.com "Oracle Monitoring & Alerting Solution" -----Original Message----- From: Steven Patenaude [mailto:spatenau@xxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:40 PM To: Marquez, Chris Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Yet another tool for Command_line_history for Linux DBA On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:15:10 -0500, Marquez, Chris <CMarquez@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > For those of us with "fat fingers" this would be a blessing. >=20 > I can not tell you how many times I fail to simply type v$istnance,=20 > v$instnace, v$instance! And often...and I mean often, I will run this=20 > little select in a spool and to eye-ball that I'm in the right place=20 > before rolling out some DDL... >=20 > And about those debug sessions with your developers when you might=20 > select from dba_tab_privs, dba_sys_privs, and dba_role_privs, over,=20 > and over again to verify grants and privs... I usually have two windows open, one the telnet sqlplus session and the other a gui text editor. Cut'n'paste! I'll usually save the resulting text file with a hopefully meaningful name and often will come back to it when a similar scenario comes up. Steven -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l