How to spool file with a timestamp/seq_number in the file name

Question

Hi I try to write a test script that will have some kind of timestamp or seq_number in the spool output file's filename itself.
so e.g.
test_abc_20120425161616.txt
I can do it on shell but is there a way I can do it all in sqlplus.
I recall I see something similar in statpack long time ago..

Answer 1

vxwo0owxv wrote:
Hi I try to write a test script that will have some kind of timestamp or seq_number in the spool output file's filename itself.
so e.g.
test_abc_20120425161616.txt
I can do it on shell but is there a way I can do it all in sqlplus.
I recall I see something similar in statpack long time ago..
>Hi I try to write a test script that will have some kind of timestamp or seq_number in the spool output file's filename itself.
so e.g.
test_abc_20120425161616.txt
I can do it on shell but is there a way I can do it all in sqlplus.
I recall I see something similar in statpack long time ago..
set termout off
col dt new_value dt
select to_char(sysdate,'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS') dt from dual;
set termout on
spool file_&dt
-- place your SQL here
spool off
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WHY am I NOT surprised?
Edited by: sb92075 on Apr 24, 2012 4:37 PM