Hi, I don't want constant re-connection. I want to use this logic and fire some queries every secs during certain period for proactive monitoring. making so many connections is not acceptable. regards, Ajay _____ From: Pal, Raj [mailto:Raj.Pal@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:43 AM To: Thotangare, Ajay (GTI) Subject: RE: Run command on sqlplus repetitively without reconnection. I don't really know why you don't want to reconnect... but you might consider a plsql loop that includes a "!sleep" after your command. Does that make sense? --------------------------------------------------- RAJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:RAJ.PAL@xxxxxxxxxxxx> _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thotangare, Ajay (GTI) Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 9:23 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/ _____