Dynamic SQL Output to a File in Forms
From: Ed & Deanna Jennings <jenningse_at_mindspring.com>
Date: 2000/08/09
Message-ID: <39919474.11B5586F_at_mindspring.com>#1/1
I'm not married to this approach, in fact I'd love an easier alternative. It has to be some form of dynamic SQL, and a cursor to process the multiple rows of output. The file needs to be written on the client workstation, so I've sort of eliminated a server side solution. Does anyone have any advice for me.
Date: 2000/08/09
Message-ID: <39919474.11B5586F_at_mindspring.com>#1/1
Forms 5.0.6.22
RDBMS 8.1.5
I have a button in Forms that needs to execute a query, and dump the
result set into a CSV file. The where clause can change each time (it
basically repeats the last query the user executed), thus I need to use
dynamic SQL (i.e dbms_sql package). I then use the text_io package to
write the file. This worked fine when the DB was 7.3.4, but now gives
an error when using 8.1.5. In a nut shell, I do the following:
dbms_sql.open_cursor
dbms_sql.parse
dbms_sql.define_column
dbms_sql.fetch_rows
dbms_sql.column_value
text_io.put_line(values)
dbms_sql.close_cursor
I'm not married to this approach, in fact I'd love an easier alternative. It has to be some form of dynamic SQL, and a cursor to process the multiple rows of output. The file needs to be written on the client workstation, so I've sort of eliminated a server side solution. Does anyone have any advice for me.
TIA
Ed Jennings
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