Re: historical data

Thanks, Dave
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:05:23PM -0700, Jared Still wrote:
>
> My first recommendation would be to do this with Perl and DBI.
>
> Fairly simple that way.
>
> If not, try using SQL generating SQL to spool the data out.
>
> Check out dump.sql at www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util, and modify
> for your needs.
>
> UTL_FILE will probably not work for this due to buffer limitations.
>
> Jared
>
>
> On Monday 21 May 2001 15:17, David Turner wrote:
> > 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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