RE: Query results to .csv

Jared - Thanks for posting this. At the moment, we are preparing to move large database to a new server. Based on the advice you posted several months ago, we have been testing SQL*Loader and as you predicted, it is indeed fast. But also as you predicted, using SQL*Plus to create a CSV isn't very fast. Am I correct in assuming the dump.sql will not be the best choice for large tables? We are installing perl since you mentioned that would probably be much faster.

Dennis Williams
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Lifetouch, Inc.
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On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 05:39, Imran Ashraf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whats the best way to write the results of a SQL query to a CSV file?
>
> Thanks.
>
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