SQL & PL/SQL :: How To Handle A File With UTL_FILE
Mar 11, 2013
I Got a scnario like a upload file contains
1.Header(Contains the File Name,Branch Name,MIS date)
2.Body(Customer Details)
3.Footer (File Name,Contians Total Number of Records and Number of Customers)
I have an application that creates files using the utl_file package. It works fine but one of the lines in the file should hold the number of bytes in the file (on a line formatted like 'FileSize: 2104'). Unfortunately this line is not the last line of the file and the lines that follow it are variable in length.
My approach therefore is as follows: 1. Write the 'FileSize: ' line during file creation. 2. Write the remaining lines of data to the file (but don't close it). 3. Use utl_fgetattr to find the file size. 4. Go back and find the 'FileSize' line I need to update, using get_line to read it into the buffer. 5. Append the filesize (plus the number of characters that the variable I use to store the filesize value) to the buffer string. 6. Write the line back to the file using put_line.
However I keep getting invalid file operation errors however I try to re-access the file...
PROCEDURE setUtlFileSize (pFileName IN VARCHAR2, pFileHandle IN utl_file.file_type) IS vbFileExists BOOLEAN; viFileLen NUMBER; viFileBlockSize NUMBER; vsFileRecord VARCHAR2(2000); [code].......
This gives me the following output.... (for two files)... currently I am using some generic exception handling just to show me the error.
Two things here concern me: The File Position suggests that the current offset position is set to the start of the file... but since I had not closed or performed any other operation since the last put_line and fflush (which are used to add lines to the file) I had expected that the offset position would be the same as the file length?
Secondly: Even if the position had been reset to the start of the file I don't understand why the get_line gives me the oracle error.
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
I'm creating a file using UTL_FILE.FOPEN and UTL_FILE.PUTF
But I don't know the file I created is in which encoding ASCII, UTF-8, EBCDIC etc.
1.) How can I create files in my desired encoding using UTL_FILE? 2.) Does UTL_FILE use database encoding? If yes then how to find out database encoding? 3.) Which encoding is used by UTL_FILE by default?
How to spool the Japanese characters in table using UTL_FILE. I tried with utl_file.fopen it's general,it's spooling. but i am not sure it this right way or not. in this case we need to change any character.
We can't see this characters in TOAD. Only possible in PLSQL developer
I want to use UTL_FILE package to create OS file. How to resolve this error. Oracle11g under XP.
SQL> create directory my_dir as 'c: emp';
Directory created.
1 create or replace procedure test_1(md in varchar2) 2 is 3 file utl_file.file_type; 4 begin 5 file := utl_file.fopen(md,'abc.log','w'); 6 utl_file.put_line(file,'EMPLOYE REPORT'); 7 utl_file.fclose(file); 8* end; SQL> /
Procedure created.
SQL> execute test_1('MY_DIR'); BEGIN test_1('MY_DIR'); END;
RROR at line 1: RA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exception RA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 98 RA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 157 RA-06512: at "SCOTT.TEST_1", line 5 RA-06512: at line 1
I want to extract data from a table and write into a txt file using UTL_FILE utility.I have written the below query. I am able to see query is returning data.But it is not creating file and writing data into it.
CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY DOC_PATH AS '/apps/orarpt/SJDEV/utl' CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE xxcfi_outbound_test (errbuf OUT VARCHAR2, retcode OUT VARCHAR2) AS CURSOR emp_cur
We have a requirement to create a file using UTL_FILE package. so we tried to generate the file in directory at UNIX level,for example "/tmp" which means when we executing the stored procedure which in turn calls UTL_FILE package and create a file say "a.txt". On checking the permission for "a.txt", it shows as follows
-rw-r----- oracle dba a.txt
this means read and write for oracle user, read for dba group and no permission for other user.
our requirement is to have the following privileges at UNIX level.
-rw-r--r-- oracle dba a.txt
Is it possible to do at oracle level since the file is owned by oracle user or at UNIX level (with out logging to oracle user)?
I am using an Oracle 8i database.We intend creating a dbms_job that would run every 5 minutes. The job executes a script that would use utl_file to read two text files (a header file and detail file) from a particular directory and load the data into temporary tables. The naming convention of the files are Parts_Master_DD/MM/YY HH:MI:SS and Parts_Stats_DD/MM/YY HH:MI:SS. Both files to be stored in the same directory.
If the file name was constant ie. Parts_Master, Parts_Stats I would not have a problem. However with each file name now going to be unique, how do I handle this using utl_file. To add to my dilemma, within an hour more than one set of files could be piped to the directory to be read into the database.
I am having problem with my tnsnames.ora file.seems the file cannot handle connection information for more than one DB. It worked fine in the beginning, after that, whenever i had to connect to a DB, i had to keep switching and renaming 5 files, with respect to whichever database I want to connect to. this is the entries in the file, for 2 D's and it wont work, with just one in each it works, but not for two...
I am sure, nothing wrong with teh IP/virtualname, cause with just one of these in the file, they work excellent.I tried leaving line between the connection strings for each DB, without leavin lines, etc..
We are trying to restore a database to a cold backup DBID.However while our datafiles were backuped up for 6 months retention we found out subsequent delete obsolete command wiped out the Control file related to this backup piece..Now what is left with this backup piece is just datafiles..
Can we still recover the database with a subsequent controlfile autobackup for the same DBID.?
I am trying read a File to find out the error message through UTL_FILE.m. But the loop used inside is not getting closed.
CREATE OR REPLACE procedure alert_mail_A as v_flag varchar2(10); mesg varchar2(100); c1 utl_smtp.connection; -- passing the datatype to a variable. c varchar2 (1000); B utl_file.file_type; [code]........
I have make utl_file. Its run in oracle 10 g. But when i run oracle 9i it give some error.
ERROR at line 1: ORA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exception ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 120 ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 204 ORA-06512: at "HR.EXP_DATA", line 9 ORA-06512: at line 1.
when I am running a cursor and printing its data into an excel file using utl_file, the file size is nearly 50mb. But if I run the cursor and copy its data manually into an excel sheet the file size is only 22mb. I am unable to undersatnd why there is difference in file size.
We have a p/slq procedure that reads a *.txt file using the UTL_FILE package. The contents of the file are then inserted into a database table.
At the end of the procedure we close the open file using UTL_FILE.FCLOSE.
There is a program (non-oracle)that attempts to move the file to a new location after being read into Oracle. The problem is that the application cannot move the file as the file is locked. ie message displays that the file is open and cannot be moved to a new location.
Is there anything else that we are missing besides the UTL_FILE.FCLOSE.
I'm trying to read the data from flat file and write data into multiple files based on the condition. The value of each line is checked with the Flag Table (Id NUMBER, FlagType VARCHAR(25), Flag CHAR(1)), If the Flag is True then new file has to be created and corresponding line has to be moved into new file otherwise it has to continue with the same file.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE rw_demo (File_In VARCHAR2, File_out VARCHAR2) IS InFile utl_file.file_type; OutFile utl_file.file_type; vNewLine VARCHAR2(4000); i PLS_INTEGER; j PLS_INTEGER := 0; SeekFlag BOOLEAN := TRUE; [code].........
it gets these three characters at the start of the line l_hdr_evnt = 
So i saved header_evnt.txt as UTF-8, and used utl_file.fopen_nchar, utl_file.get_line_nchar, which got rid of first two characters, but still has ¿. How to get rid of that?
I managed to upload images to a database server, resize them, copy to the application server and everything worked just fine - the Apex page successfully displayed images. Since last week, things have broken. This is how: there's a directory object which points to application server's directory:
SQL> select * from all_directories;
OWNER DIRECTORY_NAME DIRECTORY_PATH ------- ------------------------------ ----------------------------------- SYS SLIKE_4005_UPLOAD d:gisslike_4005_upload --> on a database server SYS SLIKE_4005 \my-iasd$homegisslike_4005 --> on an application server
SQL>
I can use a directory located on a database server:
D:GISSlike_4005_upload>dir photo_resize.* Volume in drive D is RAID Volume Serial Number is 88F2-69D2 Directory of D:GISSlike_4005_upload [code]....
How come it doesn't work? I was absent last week, database server was restarted for some reason (there were Windows' updates which required restarting). After that, all applications (lucky us, just two of them, but in multiple procedures/functions) return FALSE for UTL_FILE.FGETATTR.
We recreated directory objects, but that didn't work (UNC or not, no difference). I Googled quite a lot, read Metalink notes - nothing I did solved the problem.
what these OS updates were about; maybe they are not to be blamed at all. Both servers (database & application) run MS Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Service Pack 2. In the meantime, a colleague developed a workaround (it uses UTL_HTTP) which works, but it is MUCH slower than the previous UTL_FILE.FGETATTR option.
Why don't we keep these images on the database server (instead of the application server)?I was told that Apache is incapable of accessing mapped network directories so we used what we could.
I have a stored procedure that does a "select name into v_name" SQL statement, which works fine. The only problem is when the query finds no data (the procedure will error because there is no value to put into the variable). Now i have a work around to this by running the query first with a count statement (which will always have results) and then if it is not equal to 0, then i will run the select into.
My question is, is there a better way to handle this kind of issue?
The following code is working fine,But the thing is if column already exists in the table,then also the other statements should be executed instead of coming out of procedure.SO how can I handle that exception??
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE sp_execparameters(tname IN VARCHAR2, colname IN VARCHAR2,datatype IN VARCHAR2) 2 AS 3 v_sqlstr1 VARCHAR2(1000); 4 BEGIN 5 v_sqlstr1 := 'alter table '||tname||' add '||colname ||' '|| datatype ; [code].........
we are using oracle database. We hold the company records in the database. The records of the company should be available at anytime but over years the database keeps growing. Now how to handle the old data. All the data is important but if this goes for few more years then we need more and more disk space to handle. Is there any efficient methodologies to handle the old data? For us old mean the data that is 10 year old.
from the above code I want to execute both the inner block exception and outer block exception and is there any way to pl/sql engine that execute the outer exception first and inner next
I trying to Assign XML content to the clob variable inside the pl/sql block, But i am getting the Below Error:
declare t clob; begin t := 'xml content exceeds 32000 characters'
update test clob_cloumn = t; where id =2;
exception when others then null; End;
ORA-06550: line 5, column 4: PLS-00172: string literal too long
I need to handle this exception, i know it length exceeds 32000 characters, but even though i need to handle the exception and to perform other operation after handling the exception.
I'm working on a plsql program and i'm using collections. I loop the collection and delete rows of it depending on the edits of my program. Here is the question.
if my collection holds rows [1]value [2]value [3]value
i can simply do something like FOR indx in invoice.first..invoice.lasthowever if i delete row 2 of my collection i get an error. no data found. ive been researching this site
[URL].......
rows [1]value [3]value [4]value
is there a way to tell plsql i just want it to loop the collection from top to bottom regardless of the index values?