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Old 01-16-2007
Writing records from resultset to file
Hi Friends,

can you help me with this
I would like to write records from a query into a flat file?
I am currently using this code

Is there any other method ???

sqlplus -s username/password <<- !
select * from emp_db;
quit
! > sample.txt


Thanks in advance.



Thanks
Sam Smilie
Last edited by sbasetty; 01-16-2007 at 05:34 PM..
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Old 01-16-2007
In Oracle? sqlplus has the spool command - example: spool t.dat writes the output of the query to the t.dat file.
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Old 01-16-2007
Thanks Jim
how can we use the spool with in the shell, can you pls explain
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Old 01-16-2007
it worked thank you
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