Re: Exporting a fixed length file...???

 Try using a straight sql*plus script to pull your data out into a flat file, and you can execute it straight from cron.

ewing_at_mail.vhp.vanderbilt.edu (Rick Ewing) wrote:
>I'm a bit of a novice to the world of Oracle, but I'm wondering how any of
>you export a fixed-length
>text file (versus something tab delimited) out of a standard Oracle
>utility. There are ways
>of course to futz around with this in client software, but I'd like to be
>able to direct my Unix
>machine to do this automagically under cron. Can it be done? How?
>
>--Rick Ewing
> Vanderbilt University
> ewing_at_vhp.vanderbilt.edu
>
>--
>--Rick Ewing (ewing_at_mail.vhp.vanderbilt.edu)
> Vanderbilt Health Plans, Vanderbilt University
> The Harvard Group, Inc.
> "I could be arguing in my spare time."
  Received on Sat Jan 07 1995 - 07:22:40 CET