Re: sql*plus column format remove whitespace

alok_bisani_at_yahoo.com (Alok Bisani) wrote in message news:<f28905db.0410280225.23ca2f21_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
> Is there a column format in SQL*PLUS to trim whitespace? For eg.
> the following query output
> SQL> select owner, table_name, tablespace_name, cluster_name from
> all_tables where rownum < 2;
>
> OWNER TABLE_NAME
> ------------------------------ ------------------------------
> TABLESPACE_NAME CLUSTER_NAME
> ------------------------------ ------------------------------
> SYS UNDO$
> SYSTEM
>
>
> SQL>
>
> should be something like this.
> SQL> select owner, table_name, tablespace_name, cluster_name from
> all_tables where rownum < 2;
>
> OWNER TABLE_NAME TABLESPACE_NAME CLUSTER_NAME
> ----- ---------- --------------- ------------
> SYS UNDO$ SYSTEM
>
>
> SQL>
>
> This is required to output a CSV file from a query. I can do a string
> concatenation of all the columns with a comma in between, but sure
> there is a 4000 or someother limit to that?

There is a command for formatting, called, strangely enough, COLUMN.

HTH,
  ed Received on Thu Oct 28 2004 - 21:19:01 CEST