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

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:27:54 +0000

Larry – this saved me so much time! Thanks.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:22:54 +0000

Thanks for the post
I created a sql script which captures the contents of various columns in a table that are going to be changed in a mass update routine. The captured values are output in “update” statements so they can be used for recovery purpose’s. There are going to be over 130,000 lines that will be built by this pre update capture script.

I was going to run this script from toad and save it to a file, but the overhead of the Toad GUI was just not acceptable in the amount of time it took to run. So, I was looking for a DOS/SQLPLUS solution.

This gave it to me.

Thanks

By: arich

arich — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:17:58 +0000

Hi,

How can I run the spool script within a loop using a dynamic variable being used as the table name? Here, we have the table names in date format where every day a new table is created. So, to extract data from the respective date wise tables, I intend to call the spool script passing the parameter in the loop and generated the file for each date.

Could you please help me with the options urgently?

By: raunak

raunak — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:56:17 +0000

the code provide by you is not working please provide me with a technique to export a table from sql to .csv file format.

By: larry

larry — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:41:00 +0000

Spool will actually overwrite the file so no need to delete.

By: ajay

ajay — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:01:33 +0000

I need to delete a file which I created using spool option. I need to recreate the same file again using spool command.
May I know the command for deleting the file.?

Thx
ajay

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!