## db_executenice

### Use

With this DBM command you send an administration command or SQL statement to the database instance. However, for SQL statements in particular it is intended for use via a programming interface.

Unlike when you use the db_execute DBM command, you want the reply to display one data record after another.

When you execute this command, it implicitly opens a session with the database instance and then ends the session once the command has been executed. This database session is opened in AUTOCOMMIT mode. If you specify an SQL statement, it is automatically completed with a COMMIT statement.

After you execute the administration command or the SQL statement, the system returns an OK message or displays the first data record of the reply. To display the next data record, use the db_fetchnice DBM command.

For more information about SQL statements, see the SQL Reference Manual and SQL Tutorial.

See also:

Database Administration Tutorial, Operating Modes in the Database Manager CLI, Executing a Succession of Database Statements

Concepts of the Database System, SQL

### Prerequisites

● You are working in the session mode of the Database Manager CLI.

● If you want to execute administration commands, you need the AccessUtility server authorization.

● If you want to execute SQL statements, you need the AccessSQL server authorization.

### Syntax

db_executenice [<user_type>] <statement>

Options

Option | Description
<user_type> | User type, possible values are: DBM: first DBM operator DBA: database administrator SAP: special database user in connection with SAP applications
<statement> | Administration command or SQL statement

### Reply

OK

[END | CONTINUE]

[<record>]

Values for the Reply Fields

Value | Description
END | The complete reply was output.
CONTINUE | More data records are available but were not transferred due to the limited size of the reply package.
<record> | A data record of the result of the SQL statement The fields in a data record are separated by semicolons. Character strings are output in single quotation marks.

In the event of errors, see Reply Format.

### Example

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Log on to the Database Manager CLI in session mode as operator OLEG with the password MONDAY, connect to the DEMODB database instance, display the columns of the USERS table record by record with the relevant comments:

>dbmcli -u OLEG,MONDAY -d DEMODB

dbmcli on DEMODB>db_executenice SELECT columnname, comment FROM domain.columns WHERE tablename = 'USERS'

OK

CONTINUE

COLUMNNAME = 'OWNER'

COMMENT = (long)

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dbmcli on DEMODB>db_fetchnice

OK

CONTINUE

COLUMNNAME = 'GROUPNAME'

COMMENT = (long)

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dbmcli on DEMODB>db_fetchnice

...

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