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since Oracle 7.3 you can schedule jobs in the Oracle server. See administrator's manual, chapter "Managing Job Queues" for details.
You will need to transfer you SQLs in PL/SQL procedures and use UTL_FILE package to spool results.
-- Giorgos "Rory Tripp" <rtripp_at_xmission.com> wrote in message news:3b04801c.699475182_at_news...Received on Fri May 18 2001 - 04:20:35 CDT
> Sorry for posting a stupid question, but I'm new to Oracle. Our
> vendor stores its data in an Oracle 7 database on NT Server 4.0, and
> up until now we haven't really been able to get it besides their
> canned reports. What I want to do is to schedule a job to
> automatically export the previous day's data in the tables. I can
> write the SQL statements fine, and I can manually spool it, but how
> can I get it to do it automatically each night? Thanks for any help
> you have.
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