Re: Spooling output of a select statement to a file through stored

Ranganath,

First you have to specify a place where Oracle may write the file. You do this by setting the UTL_DIR parameter in your init<SID>.ora file. Make sure that the Oracle user has write permission on the directory(ies) you specify. You'll need to bounce the DB to have this parameter take effect.

Your code will look something like this(this is for an NT Box):

CREATE or REPLACE .........
AS
  CURSOR XXX IS......         vocstu_report utl_file.file_type;

BEGIN         vocstu_report:= utl_file.fopen('F: \oracle\admin\reports','vocstu_report.txt','W');

(All your processing here)

                       utl_file.put_line(vocstu_report,
                                        RPAD(v_lastname,25,' ') ||
                                        RPAD(v_firstname,15,' ') ||
                                        RPAD(v_gender,6,' ') ||
                                        RPAD(v_grade,5,' ') ||
                                        RPAD(v_ethniccode,6,' ') ||
                                        RPAD(v_altid1,13,' ') ||
                                        RPAD(v_AGATInd,5,' ') ||
                                        RPAD(v_STXPInd,4,' '));

David A. Barbour
Oracle DBA, OCP
AISD
512-414-1002

                                                                                       
                          
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Dear DBA Gurus,

           How do I spool output of a select statement to a file through stored
procedure. The stored procedure should take the directory and path of the file to be spooled to on the client machine. I know we can do this using UTL_FILE package. But I don't want to write to a file in Oracle Database server machine rather I want to write the output to a file in client machine. Please note that I want to do this through a Pl/Sql procedure or a
pl/sql program so that the procedure can be called from the front end which is Java/C++. How do I do this? Any help in this regard will be duly appreciated.

Thanks and Regards,

Ranganath

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