Back in the mists of time, when Broadband was a way of describing a group of fat blokes with guitars, PL/SQL blinked it’s way into the world. It’s purpose was ( and largely remains) to provide the facility to apply 3GL program structures to SQL from within the database ( hence – Procedural Language / SQL).
As an integral part of the Oracle RDBMS, most PL/SQL I/O activities are on database tables. The ability to read and write OS files didn’t arrive until much later.
Meanwhile, back in the present, things are somewhat better on the File Handling front. So, if you just have to generate that flat-file and would rather not muck about with a pre-compiler (or a Java Stored Procedure), PL/SQL will do the job. (more…)
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UTL_FILE in PL/SQL – I/O, I/O, it’s off to work we go
October 2, 2010Tags:Anti-Kyte, CREATE DIRECTORY, csv files, PL/SQL File IO, UTL_FILE, UTL_FILE permissions, UTL_FILE.FCLOSE, UTL_FILE.FOPEN, UTL_FILE.GET_LINE, UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE
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