On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Dennis Williams < oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > List, > > So, I'm trying to generate a list of CREATE TABLESPACE statements from > DBA_DATA_FILES. I'm having trouble putting single quotes around the datafile > name. This is frustrating because I seem to have forgotten how to do this. I > thought there is a SQL function that would let you enter the hexadecimal > value of a character you want printed. > > This is 10.2.0.4 on Solaris, but I don't think that matters. > Why not use dbms_metadata? ================================================= set linesize 1000 set long 10000 col mydb noprint new_value mydb set term off select lower(name) mydb from v$database; set term on define sqlfile=_gen_tbs_&&mydb -- dbms_metadata setup begin dbms_metadata.set_transform_param(dbms_metadata.session_transform,'PRETTY',TRUE); dbms_metadata.set_transform_param(dbms_metadata.session_transform,'SQLTERMINATOR',TRUE); dbms_metadata.set_transform_param(dbms_metadata.session_transform,'SEGMENT_ATTRIBUTES',TRUE); dbms_metadata.set_transform_param(dbms_metadata.session_transform,'STORAGE', TRUE); dbms_metadata.set_transform_param(dbms_metadata.session_transform,'TABLESPACE',TRUE); dbms_metadata.set_transform_param(dbms_metadata.session_transform,'SPECIFICATION',TRUE); dbms_metadata.set_transform_param(dbms_metadata.session_transform,'BODY',TRUE); dbms_metadata.set_transform_param(dbms_metadata.session_transform,'CONSTRAINTS',TRUE); end; / spool &&sqlfile..sql prompt set echo on prompt spool &&sqlfile..log select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLESPACE',tablespace_name) from dba_tablespaces / prompt spool off prompt set echo off spool off ================================================= Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist