Re: Dynamic spool files

"Alex" <avilner_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1110835153.369137.250650_at_o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Dear Netters,
>
> Seems that the question has been answered in the past, but for a single
> file...
>
> What I am looking to do is to generate a set of spool files, where the
> file name is based on the table_name from user_tables.
>
> So, in a nutshell, a script that would look like this:
>
> FOR rec IN (SELECT table_name FROM user_tables
> LOOP
> spool rec.table_name
> <select some values to populate the file>
> spool off
> END LOOP;
>
> So, it is the spool file per entry in the user_tables, and it needs to
> be done on the client side, rather than the server.
>
> Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!
> Thank you in advance.
>
> --Alex
>

use that same approach to generate the SQL SELECT statements as well as the SQL*Plus spool commands (rather than actually execute the SQL SELECT statement within the loop)

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