Re: historical data

What did you use as a delimiter, and are their any limits on tables I can write to a file?

Thanks, Dave
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:47:20PM -0500, Deshpande, Kirti wrote:
> Hi David,
> If there is a remote possibility of loading this data back into Oracle XX
> database (or any other, for that matter), then what you are doing makes
> perfect sense. I used to unload data into flat files when I worked on the
> mainframe systems a few years ago. And a few times we did have to load it
> back into newer versions of the database. You are on the right track.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Kirti Deshpande
> Verizon Information Services
> http://www.superpages.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Turner [SMTP:turner_at_tellme.com]
> > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 5:17 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: historical data
> >
> > We have to role off partitions of data every week and I am writing a
> > script to
> > write the data to comma separated files using utl_file. What I was
> > wondering is
> > does anyone have an alternative that is better? I thought about using
> > export but
> > thought it wouldn't be fun trying to import an export file into the latest
> > version
> > of Oracle 10 years down the road.
> >
> > Thanks, Dave
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