Create file, and export it to Network drive?

Question

Ok. I have said this a few times - I am a java developer, and I am not that great at writing procedures, or function, but I try. Here is my situation. I would like a procedure that will query a table, and output this data into a file based on the queries. So for example. I would like to output something like this:
Report Name: Date:
Total Number of Proposals Missing PSR: 247
Proposals missing PSR pending credit check: 147
proposal id      prospect id   psr/document_number   credit check  description
========         ========      ================      ============= =============
818356           434345                              fail          credit check failed
634466           134556                              fail          credit check failed
etc.....
Proposals missing PSR but credit check passed: 46
proposal id      prospect id   psr/document_number   credit check  description
========         ========      ================      ============= =============
345345            345453                           pass          credit check passed
                                                                   but missing psr
345653            864564                           pass          credit check failed
                                                                   but missing psr
Proposals update with missing psr/document_number:                                     26
proposal id      prospect id   psr/document_number   credit check  description
========         ========      ================      ============= =============
778978            456473       345366                pass          proposal id [778978]
                                                                   updated with psr [345366]
944564            457756       64332                 pass          proposal id [944564]
                                                                   updated with psr [345366]Now I would like to put this data in a file.
Once I get the file I would like to put it out on the network drive.
Now I have done this with java, but I think there is a way to do it in oracle.
I found this code
create or replace
PROCEDURE PR_OUTPUT_TOFILE IS
           file_handle UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE; -- file handle of OS flat file
           prop_id  NUMBER; 
           c1 NUMBER(9); -- C1 retrieved from testtab table
           retrieved_buffer VARCHAR2(100); -- Line retrieved from flat file
         BEGIN
           -- Open file to write into  and get its file_handle
           file_handle :=
             UTL_FILE.FOPEN('/tmp','myTestfile.txt','W');
           -- Write a line of text out to the file.
           UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE(file_handle, 'this is line 1 as a test');
           -- Select the c1 from the sat_proposal table
          SELECT c1 INTO prop_id FROM pon_user.sat_proposal
              WHERE proposal_id > 838300 and proposal_id < 840000;  
           -- Using PUTF write text with the col1 argument out to the file.     
           UTL_FILE.PUTF (file_handle,
              'This is the c1 %s.\n', prop_id);
           -- Close the file.
           UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(file_handle);
        EXCEPTION
           WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
              DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('no_data_found');
              UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(file_handle);
           WHEN UTL_FILE.INVALID_PATH THEN
              DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('UTL_FILE.INVALID_PATH');
              UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(file_handle);        
           WHEN UTL_FILE.WRITE_ERROR THEN
              DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('UTL_FILE.WRITE_ERROR');
              UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(file_handle);
           WHEN OTHERS THEN
              DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('other stuff');
              UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(file_handle);
END PR_OUTPUT_TOFILE;and it puts a file out their on the oracle server in the /tmp directory that I am running from. Is there a way to get a network connection and upload this file to the mapped drive?
you know like \\nvlplace\SAT\Reports\etc
orozcom

Answer 1

orozcom,
Are you running on a unix/linux server or a windows server?
If you are running on a Linux or unix server, then I would look at SAMBA mapping and mounting the SAMBA drive to a mount point and then you can properly reference it.
If you are running on Windows, you will need to go to underlying service in the services manager and change the running service from the system account to the Oracle NT account that has network privileges. Restart the service and then you can reference network drives from the database.
Take caution and read your documentation, review security concerns, before changing the Oracle background service. I have done it before, but I do not know if it is supported of hand.
Thanks,
Bryan