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Re: Exporting to a .csv file

From: Jeff Boyer <jdboyer_at_(remove)icomproductions.ca>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:05:39 -0600
Message-ID: <9ain4j$nvt$1@news3.cadvision.com>

Thanks alot, I will try it out............... Thanks for taking the tie to help mw out.
"TurkBear" <noone_at_nowhere.com> wrote in message news:c7npctgdph58t5s7qn2kh9qu9j17oqc5a9_at_4ax.com...
>
> A search of dejanews may find one for you but basically,
>
> In SqlPLus:
> set heading off
> set feedback off
> set linesize 10000 ( or some large number)
> set pagesize 0
> spool d:\myfiles\table_name.csv
> select rtrim(field1)||','||rtrim(field2)||','||.......[ and so on 'till
 all the
> fields you want to output have been concatenated with commas between
 them]....
> spool off
>
> Its far easier to use a tool ( like Crystal Reports ) that can export in
 CSV
> format....
>
>
>
> "Jeff Boyer" <jdboyer@(remove)icomproductions.ca> wrote:
>
> >Hello everyone,
> >
> >Can anyone tell me how to Export my database to a comma separated value
> >file. I have done some reading on the net about this but everywhere I go
> >they say you need to spool from within SQL*Plus with a custom script, but
> >there are no examples of this custom script. Can anyone help me?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Jeff
> >
>
Received on Thu Apr 05 2001 - 16:05:39 CDT

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