SELECT object_name, object_type, created, last_ddl_time, timestamp, status FROM user_objects; Run Operating System Commands from SQL*Plus One of my favorite commands in SQL*Plus is the host command.

These commands must be prepended with cmd /C to be executed appropriately. However, this step is unnecessary when invoking SQL*Plus from Groovy on Windows because SQL*Plus is a separate executable.

Just as spoken language has syntax rules that govern the way we assemble words into sentences, SQL*Plus has syntax rules that govern how you assemble words into commands.

For detailed statistics, you had to run the TKPROF utility. We can now get the execution plan and trace information for any SQL statement very quickly and easily with a few SQL*Plus commands.