Hi, Thanks to one of my customers, I am dealing with csv data in clob lately a lot. so they asked me if I can get a csv data in a clob column as separated columns using select statement. They wanted to show this data on their applicaitons. I suggested different methods but they said
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Parsing CSV Lines and columns in PLSQL
Hi, Yesterday, one of my customers asked for help to tune a procedure and when I investigated the problem I find out that their method to get a specific “column” value in csv file was the problem. So we discuss the situation and adopt a new version of the code. While doing that I just
How to convert a LONG column to CLOB directly in a query
Hi, This is a big problem since LONG is a very painful data type. You cannot search in it, use it in CTAS (create table as), pass it to a plsql object as parameter etc. Oracle strongly suggest not to use a LONG column anymore but unfortunately there are many LONG columns in data dictionary
Insert multi line text data using sqlldr
Hello Everyone, I just answered an OTN question about inserting multi line data using sqlldr and simply wanted to share it here (https://community.oracle.com/thread/4278952) so if have a data like this in your text file: you need to do some extra work to accomplish this problem. In my example I have 4 rows but 2
How to call a Web Soap Service or API from PLSQL
Hello Everyone, I would like to share one of my codes which allows you to call a web service (soap service) or API through PLSQL. I modified it time to time whenever something new comes up and I still do. I hope it helps you too.