Re: Sql loader loads - what is the name of the counterpart that exports

Sqplus works well for this as long as the file is not too large.

Spooling to a file in sqlplus is quite slow.

C or, ahem, Perl, are much faster.

Jared - OCP and Part Time Perl Evangelist ;)

On Thursday 05 September 2002 11:44, Reginald.W.Bailey_at_jpmorgan.com wrote:
> It's called SQL Plus. Set the heading off, pagesize = 0, linesize = 200,
> set record delimiter = ',' or '|' and set feedback off; and termout on.
> This should produce an ASCII file once you supply your own query.
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> ltiu <ltiu_at_alumni.sfu.ca>@fatcity.com on 09/05/2002 01:05:07 PM
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> Sql loader loads - what is the name of the counterpart that exports
> Oracle data in plain text?
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> Export and Import does not handle plain ascii - these handle their own
> proprietary binary format, which utility can export Oracle data out from
> an Oracle database to a plain text file in comma-delimited format?
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> Thanks for any tips.
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