Re: UTL_FILE.OPEN

On Mar 28, 1:20 pm, "patrick" <mpp..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 28, 3:50 pm, "patrick" <mpp..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
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> >> I'm running an older version of Oracle 8.1.7 and I'm using the UTL_FILE
> >> package to create a csv file. However, my file is going to be greater
> >> than
> >> 10 meg and I keep getting an error message after several rows of data
> >> have
> >> been written to the file.
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> >> Thanks
> >> Patrick
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> > Can you provide more details.
> > What is the error you are getting ? is it for the same row everytime ?
> > You may be exceeding the limit for PUT or PUT_LINE.
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> > Thanks,
> > Srihari
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> Thanks Srihari. I found my problem wasn't the UTL_FILE, but a cursor issue
> in which I assumed an incorrect varchar size.- Hide quoted text -
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Patrick, just in case you had not tried or consided it, it is very easy to create delimited files using SQLPlus:

How do I export a database table to a flat file ?

        http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/flatfile.html

HTH -- Mark D Powell -- Received on Wed Mar 28 2007 - 18:21:31 CDT