I have played with http://www.wisdomforce.com/FastReader and found it to be useful as well On 10/19/06 2:30 PM, "Mindaugas Navickas" <mnavickas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Note that if you take an approach sql*plus spool, it limits you to 4000 > characters. If you have tables that actual record length is longer, then > PL/SQL code with dbms_sql/utl_file (code can be found on AskTom site) would be > a better approch - even thought (from my experience) it's little slower. > > Mindaugas > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Roger Xu <Roger.Xu@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:58:55 PM > Subject: RE: dump to CSV (comma-separated values) file format > > thank you all - we are still in the traditional way (9i). > SQL-generate-SQL is what I want now. > > > -- Adi Alurkar aalurkar@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l