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Have VSQL Beep Upon Command Completion

There are a lot of cool command line options available to VSQL. One of my favorites is the –b option which causes Vertica to “beep” when a command completes. This is very useful if you are running a very long sequence of SQL commands via a script. You can go off and do other things while the script runs. VSQL will “beep” once letting you know latter that the script has completed!
Example:
[[email protected] ~]$ cat beep.sql SELECT version(); SELECT sysdate; SELECT user; SELECT 'SOME_DATA'; SELECT 'SOME MORE DATA'; -- Alot more stuff... SELECT sysdate; [[email protected] ~]$ vsql -bf beep.sql -o beep.log << I heard a “Beep” >> [[email protected] ~]$ cat beep.log version ------------------------------------ Vertica Analytic Database v9.2.1-5 (1 row) sysdate ---------------------------- 2019-09-03 15:54:41.510405 (1 row) current_user -------------- dbadmin (1 row) ?column? ----------- SOME_DATA (1 row) ?column? ---------------- SOME MORE DATA (1 row) sysdate --------------------------- 2019-09-03 15:54:41.53582 (1 row)
Helpful Link:
https://www.vertica.com/docs/9.2.x/HTML/Content/Authoring/ConnectingToVertica/vsql/CommandLineOptions.htm
Have fun!
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If you're in the VSQL prompt - you can use the meta-command \b too...
https://www.vertica.com/docs/9.2.x/HTML/Content/Authoring/ConnectingToVertica/vsql/Meta-Commands/MetaCommandReference.htm
nice -,-