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Is It Possible To Split A Spool File In SQL*PLUS in Multiple Small Files ? (Doc ID 2152654.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 13, 2020

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 to 12.1.0.2 [Release 10.2 to 12.1]
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Goal

We have an Unix environment with file size limitation (2GB), and we have a routine shell script that generates a large spool file.

We would like to know if it´s possible to split this big spool file in many small files of 2GB max size during the generating of spool file.

 

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