But one small piece escapes my Google searches. How do I connect to a database? I log in to the server, I fire up SQL Plus, I log in, I'm dropped at a SQL> prompt, and I have not yet told it what ...

Previously, the glogin.sql and login.sql files were executed only once during login to SQL*Plus. In Oracle 10g, the glogin.sql and login.sql are run whenever you connect to a new user.

Use SILENT to invoke SQL*Plus within another program so that the use of SQL*Plus is invisible to the user. database_specification Consists of a SQL*Net connection string. The exact syntax depends upon ...