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icon4.gif  Delimited output from sqlplus (merged by CM) [message #445731] Wed, 03 March 2010 11:26 Go to next message
devi_vi
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hi all.,
i have a requirement to get a delimited output file by executing a select query.

For e.g, select id, name, age from customers;
i need the output as,
id,name,age
123,devi,23
34,abi,20
4900,infy,23

i tried select id||','||name||','||age from customers;
but am getting the following output....
id||','||name||','||age
123,devi,23
34,abi,20
4900,infy,23

But i want to remove those pipes inbetween the column name.... can some one help me in this....

i tried colsep also... but there am getting the output as.,
id,name,age
123, devi, 23
34, abi, 20
4900, infy, 23

some unwanted spaces in between...
but i want the output as this...
id,name,age
123,devi,23
34,abi,20
4900,infy,23

the query which am using is stored in a .sql file....

can someone help me in this....
Re: Delimited output from sqlplus (merged by CM) [message #445733 is a reply to message #445731] Wed, 03 March 2010 11:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
JRowbottom
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SET COLSEP ','
icon4.gif  Re: Delimited output from sqlplus (merged by CM) [message #445736 is a reply to message #445731] Wed, 03 March 2010 12:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
devi_vi
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But if i use colsep, am getting some unwanted spaces between the column values...

how to avoid that....
Re: Delimited output from sqlplus (merged by CM) [message #445738 is a reply to message #445736] Wed, 03 March 2010 12:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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>how to avoid that....

RTRIM & LTRIM
Re: Delimited output from sqlplus (merged by CM) [message #445741 is a reply to message #445736] Wed, 03 March 2010 13:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michel Cadot
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devi_vi wrote on Wed, 03 March 2010 19:42
But if i use colsep, am getting some unwanted spaces between the column values...

how to avoid that....

You are back to your first query.

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Michel

Re: Delimited output from sqlplus (merged by CM) [message #445743 is a reply to message #445731] Wed, 03 March 2010 14:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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WITH tmp AS
     (SELECT '123' ID, 'devi' NAME, '23' age
        FROM DUAL
      UNION ALL
      SELECT '34' ID, 'abi' NAME, '20' age
        FROM DUAL
      UNION ALL
      SELECT '4900' ID, 'infy' NAME, '23' age
        FROM DUAL)
SELECT 'id' || ',' || 'name' || ',' || 'age' AS col1
  FROM DUAL
UNION ALL
SELECT ID || ',' || NAME || ',' || age col1
  FROM tmp

[Updated on: Wed, 03 March 2010 14:58]

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Re: Delimited output from sqlplus (merged by CM) [message #445859 is a reply to message #445731] Thu, 04 March 2010 07:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Kaeluan
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You can try something like this


select id || ',' || name || ',' || age "id,name,age"
from   customers
Re: Delimited output from sqlplus (merged by CM) [message #445866 is a reply to message #445859] Thu, 04 March 2010 07:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michel Cadot
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This will not work as soon as the alias will have more than 30 characters (depending on the version).

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Michel
Re: Delimited output from sqlplus (merged by CM) [message #445906 is a reply to message #445866] Thu, 04 March 2010 11:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
devi_vi
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thank u so much for your ideas.....
Re: Delimited output from sqlplus (merged by CM) [message #446523 is a reply to message #445906] Tue, 09 March 2010 01:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
devi_vi
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how to change the size of the alias names... its not working if the alias names are greater than 30 chars... is there any ways to change the default size..?
Re: Delimited output from sqlplus (merged by CM) [message #446527 is a reply to message #446523] Tue, 09 March 2010 02:39 Go to previous message
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No.
Use the other solutions that have been provided.

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Michel
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