Re: utl_file

OK. I saw the note. Thanks for clarifying that. I was very wrong. Sorry. So maybe you cannot create data files on mapped drive but you can write to it using utl$fie. Fenng <dbanotes_at_gmail.com> wrote:
HI,Joshi,

Oracle CAN do that !
Please check metalink's note: 45172.1

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 03:54:05 -0700 (PDT), A Joshi wrote:
>
> I do not think Oracle recognizes mapped drives. I was not able to create a data file on mapped drive. Maybe you can test that by creating a small tablespace with file on the mapped drive. If that works (I doubt it will) then you can look at utl$file details.
> Fenng wrote:Hi,Abhishek,
>
> Do you have permissions on the driver ? Read & write permission ?
>
> And in Oracle 9iR1 and before, you should edit init.ora to set the
> utl_file_dir parameter in order to WRITE a file.
>
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:40:26 +0530, Abhishek Saxena
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi friends
> > I have one query about utl_file in Oracle.
> > Actually I want to write a file on map drive which is mapped to database server but whenever I tried to write on this drive, it's give me "INVAID OPERATION" error.
> > Do you have any ideas about how to write a file on map drive or is this possible?
> > Otherwise I have to write a java program to transfer file from local drive to map drive but it's long way, Could you please let me know, is this possible to do using utl_file or not.If yes then inform me how to get it.

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