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Re: Unload Table Data to Flat Files

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:03:09 -0500
Message-ID: <bf46380511161003l5ba7c8d8n8f8138b4b01c41c1@mail.gmail.com>


Sure, use a tool that converts data to hex codes, and recognizes that when data is reloaded.
 Typically (for USASCII7 data) anything less < char(32) and > char(127) would be converted to hex.  Try googling for such a tool.
 You might check and see if DataBee does this.  HTH
 Jared

 On 11/16/05, d cheng <dc4oracle_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for your suggestion. I am hesitant to scrub the chr(10) as it
> might change user's view of the data. The 'set wrap on' seemed to work ok
> except it produces an extra blank line - a side effect of setting wrap on?.
> Any suggestions on overcoming this extra blank line?
>
> *Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_roughsea.com>* wrote:
>
> David,
>
> Can't you apply a replace(colname, chr(10), chr(32)) to your varchar2
> columns ?
> It should (normally) fix the issue.
>
> HTH
>
> Stéphane Faroult
>
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 04:31 -0800, d cheng wrote:
> > Hi Listers,
> >
> > I need to unload several large database tables unto flat files on a
> > Unix database server. I am using Tom Kyte's SQL*Plus unloader.
> > However, there seems to be a problem when a varchar column contains a
> > ^ M (CR) within it. All other columns to the right of this are
> > truncated and missing from the record in the flat file. Is there a
> > way to workaround this truncation issue? I would like to NOT scrub
> > the data by removing the carriage return as the end-users might expect
> > them to be there.
> >
>
>
> >
>
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Jared Still
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