Comments on: Spool a CSV file from Oracle/ SQL*Plus without quotes

By: larry

larry — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:14:18 +0000

Glad it helped!

By: zAo

zAo — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:15:27 +0000

Thanks! This is helpfull.

By: larry

larry — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:34:19 +0000

Thanks James. Glad it helped you out and it’s not just me!

Interesting thing about the escape line and a good spot. I’m going to add that in on all my variables although I’ve not had the issue yet, but then I wouldn’t like to have the problem either.

By: James

James — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:47:04 +0000

Nice post – proved very helpful for a report I needed to create. Thanks! Just something to add on your filename tip that I pulled from another source. If you have the variable at the end of the filename (myFile_&mydate.csv), you can end up with an odd name (myFile_&mydate.csv.LST). Something about SQL Plus not knowing where the variable ends. To fix this, you need to include an escape character at the end of the variable name.
set escape / SET linesize 160;


COLUMN dcol new_value mydate noprint

SELECT to_char(sysdate,'YYYYMMDD') dcol FROM dual;

spool c:\temp\myFile_&mydate/.csv

set escape off;

SELECT 'Field1Name,Field2Name,Field3Name,Field4Name,Field5Name' FROM dual;

Any character works for the escape that you aren’t using between where you set the escape and set it off. The slash worked for me, but I had to set escape off after the spool command as I was using it in my query.

Thanks again!

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Spool a CSV file from Oracle/ SQL*Plus without quotes « Lucky Larry’s — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:12:05 +0000

[...] July 17, 2009 at 8:11 pm (Computers, Oracle, Programming, SQL) (CSV file, No Quotes, Oracle, Spool, SQL, SQL Plus) Quite useful, I had the case where I needed to provide a CSV file to an external party from our Oracle 10g database. No problem, there are loads of CSV export tools out there. But it then transpired that the CSV’s that I was generating were using quote (”) marks to identify fields e.g. “field1?,”field2? and so on… Spool a CSV file from Oracle/ SQL*Plus without quotes [...]