Re: Unload Table Data to Flat Files

Thank you Vikas!

Vikas Gautam <g_vikas_at_hotmail.com> wrote: We put our record seperator as a chr(111) or some unprintable character in the unload and the load and that solved the ^M problem.

Vikas

• Original Message ----- From: "Stephane Faroult" To: Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 8:08 AM Subject: Re: Unload Table Data to Flat Files

> 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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