RE: Spooling to a flat file via SQL*Plus

From: Hand, Michael T <HANDM_at_polaroid.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 08:51:42 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003DADA8.20011212083531@fatcity.com>

Cheri,

What about
INSERT INTO new_table SELECT a,SUBSTR(b,1,255),c,d,e FROM old_table;

Just a thought.

Mike

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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I need to chang a column in an existing table from varchar2(2000) instead to varchar2(255).
I'm to truncate any data that exists that is longer than 255.

I renamed the original table to old_table. I created a new table with the same definitions as
old_table except made the single column that was varchar2(2000) is now varchar2(255).

I want to spool the data to a flat file in comma-delimited form. I only want to spool out 255
characters of the column in question. Then I'll just load it back in using SQL*Loader.

I haven't done this for a long time and I can't remember all the sql*plus commands to
set up the output properly so that the lines can wrap, etc. Also, I'm not sure how to tell it
to only list 255 characters of the 2000 character column in the output file.

I know I can spend some time looking this up in my docs but it's a terrible day today with
a lot of fires burning in various directions.

I'd appreciate it if some kind sole could help me out with the commands to spool this
out properly.

desc orig_cd_experience;

 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- --------
----------------------------
 KS_EXPERIENCEID                           NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 EXP_NOTES                                          VARCHAR2(2000)
 EXP_QA_STATE                                       VARCHAR2(100)
 TEMP_RN                                            CHAR(1)
 EXP_REVIEW_NEEDED                         NOT NULL CHAR(1)

In everlasting gratitude,

Cherie

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