RE: RE: utl_file on Redhat Linux Oracle 9 standard engine

Simpler, portability

Richard

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seems like alot of long time DBAs prefer using perl over pro*c to do data loads and unloads. is it just because its simpler? or is it more robust? or other reasons?

>
> From: "Cary Millsap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2003/07/09 Wed AM 09:44:25 EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: utl_file on Redhat Linux Oracle 9 standard engine
>
> John,
>
> UTL_FILE is one of the worst designed functions I've ever tried to use.
>
> In my opinion, it's a major design flaw to use the newline character ('\n')
> as a packet delimiter. If UTL_FILE gets input lines that are "too long" (too
> many bytes between '\n' characters), you'll get an error. If you have short
> lines in your input (like "Heading\nSubHeading\nLine1\nLine2\n..."), then
> you'll have lots of nearly empty packets flying across your network, which
> creates a horrible performance problem for the program using UTL_FILE, and
> for others who have to compete against the traffic.
>
> Check out the trcfiled.pl part of Sparky (www.hotsos.com/products/sparky).
> It's open source Perl that does file transfers (and a few other things) on
> the order of 100x faster than UTL_FILE. It's a free download.
>
>
> Cary Millsap
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> -----Original Message-----
> Dunn
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 8:24 AM
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>
> I have a problem with utl_file in Oracle 9 on Linux, standard engine....
>
> It does not seem to want to read lines longer than 997 characters. It works
> fine if the line is 997 characters or less.
>
> I get a utl_file.write_error exception if the line is longer than 997
> charcaters!!!!!!!!!!! Why a write error when I am reading?
>
> I have set the line size in the utl_file.FOPEN and utl_file.read_line to 998
>
>
> Is this a bug?
>
>
> original_kic_file_handle :=
> utl_file.FOPEN(var_transfer_dir,var_file_name||'.KIC','r',998);
>
>
> utl_file.get_line(original_kic_file_handle,var_current_line,998);
>
>
> John
>
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