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Re: Export Oracle tables to DBF files (through PL/SQL)

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:56:05 +0200
Message-ID: <dah5kn$ntt$3@news2.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


mascotenordico_at_yahoo.com.br wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thanks for replying!
>
> We know Oracle is much better than clipper, but we need to export the
> data to a clipper application which already exist and will not be
> migrate in a short time. So we need to do that "bizarre" procedure.
>
> It's not up to me! :(
>
> Thanks in advance
>

Been a long time, but aren't clipper files just fixed-length records with the first record being the column identifiers and types? You could do that from UTL_FILE...

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel
Received on Wed Jul 06 2005 - 12:56:05 CDT

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