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Hi!
I'm trying to generate a text file, that spools all datafiles in a database and generates an alter database file.
set heading off
set feedback off
set linesize 300;
set pagesize 200;
spool c:\datafiles.sql;
select 'alter database datafile ' ||name|| ' autoextend on next 50m maxsize
1000m;' from v$datafile;
spool off
@c:\datafiles.sql
exit
How do I get Oracle to do single quotes around the datafile names? Simply using two single quotes doesn't work...
select 'alter database datafile '' ||name|| '' autoextend on next 50m maxsize 1000m;' from v$datafile;
Gives me
alter database datafile ' ||name|| ' autoextend on next 50m maxsize 1000m;
Any idea?
This is 8.1.6. Received on Fri Nov 03 2000 - 12:41:27 CST