Re: How to spool single quotes in text file ?

try three quotes
like this - ithink you'll find it gives you what you need Q

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

"Helmut Daiminger" <hdaiminger_at_vivonet.com> on 11/03/2000 01:41:19 PM

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Subject: How to spool single quotes in text file ?

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.

Thanks,
Helmut

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