Andy Hardy wrote:
>
> In article <340C8420.7BA4F61D_at_ix.netcom.com>, Bruce Bristol
> <bbristol_at_ix.netcom.com> writes
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have a table that consists of about 20Gb of data on a Sun Solaris
> >system.
> >
> >I know I can use SQL*Plus to create a flat ASCII file, but Solaris has a
> >file size limitation of 2Gb (we won't be upgrading to Solaris 2.6 until
> >next year which will allow 1Tb size files.
> >
> >Anyway, is there a way I can still use SQL*Plus to have to write to a
> >different file once it hits the 2Gb file size or do I need to write a
> >program to do this?
> >
> >Thank you!
> >
> >-Bruce
> >
> Bruce,
>
> You could consider writing to the output to a pipe and having another
> process reading the pipe into a compressed file...
>
> Andy
>
> --
> Andy Hardy
Hi,
You can also write to raw devices larger than 2GB on solaris 2.4 and
above.
dick
Received on Thu Sep 04 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT
