RE: Oracle to Excel

Laura,  

Sorry about that - instead of using chr(10), use chr(09).  

(10) is line feed. (09) is tab.  

also - don't forget to : set trimspool on - it gets rid of trailing spaces!  

good luck!  

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
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Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Thank you for your response Tom. I received other responses as well, and I know that I can comma delimit a .txt file but I wanted to know if I could do it all at one time, which is why I tried your suggestion first. It works except that each field is in a separate row instead of a column.  

Below is an example (1 record is shown):  

53-041-02

0

2

AL POWER CO 51271

27-Nov-01

173.52

447-57

D412

173.52

226 DONNELL 43000

00014.04.D412    

It looks like it thinks it is a carriage return instead of a tab. Any ideas?  

Laura  

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Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L  

Laura,  

lots of tools do this for you automatically. Oracle discoverer will export the results of a query directly into Excel format.  

You can do this yourself as follows:  

in SqlPLus  

select col1||chr(10)||col2||chr(10)
from table.  

the chr(10) is the tab character.
spool the results to a output.xls  

open the file using excel. the tab character is the default column delimiter. You should see all your data in cells.  

hope this helps.
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
-----Original Message-----

Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think I have seen traffic concerning the extracting of data from Oracle into an Excel spreadsheet. We now have a need for this. Could anyone enlighten me?
Thank you in advance.
Laura

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