No High-End Recording into SB Live Val

I am recording from radio into SB Li've Value by connecting a cable from the headphone jack of stereo into the mic input of the SB Li've (going into "line in" results in too low volume). The recording works great. The resulting playback of the recorded file sounds "pretty good", but is somewhat heavy on the bass end and has absolutely no high-end (the righmost 4-5 columns on the mixer display are at zero). MP3 music that I have downloaded from other sources (like emusic.com) when played show all columns of the mixer display at good levels and sounds more "crisp" than my recordings. Note: Tried "line-in". Has lower volume (I know I could cure this with a pre-amp), but still have high-end missing.
Is this lack of high-end a function of the SB Li've Value (i.e. it just will not go this high)? If so, the only way is to use a better sound board (one that will record the higher frequencies)? Which one is recommended? (note: Don't need/want to get too fancy/expensi've here. Just recording at home for myself, but would like to do a bit better than I have).
Or should SB Li've Value be able to record the high-end frequencies and the problem is with my stereo? or program used to record (Audacity)?
Thanks Much,

Just a guess, but when you're coming out of a headphone output this is a very low impedance output. When you tie this into a mic input, which is a high impedance input, you're really loading down this high impedance input (almost like you're putting a short across it...the higher the frequency the great the short), and it may be disturbing the frequency characteristics of the input.
Ideally you'd go into the line input. I know you say that the level is not high enough. Can you not turn up the volume of the headphone output enough to give you adequate level?
More ideally, the radio would have a line output, and line levels would be just right. Good luck.

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Concatenate multiple records into one single record

Hello everyone,
Can anyone guide me how to merge multiple records into one single record
like......... I am getting the data in the file like
aaaaa/bbbbbbb/ccccccccccc/dddddddddddd/eee
ffffff/gggg/hhhhhhhhhhhhhh
/123/4567/55555/99999999/kaoabfa/eee
fffff/kkkkkkkk/llllllllllllllllllllllll
when i use gui_upload I am getting the data into the internal table in the above format.
My main intension is to split the record at / to multiple lines and dowload it into another file.
What i am planning to do is... if the line does not start with / then i want to concatenate the multiple lines into single line and then split it into multiple records. Can anyone guide me how to achieve this.

Yes, it should work.
In my example
Loop at itab.
concatenate i_text itab into i_text.
endloop.
You change that loop for the loop of your internal table with the file records
So if you have this three records
'aaaa/bbb/ccc'
'/dddd/efg'
'hijk/lmn'
i_text will look like this at the end
'aaaa/bbb/ccc/dddd/efghijk/lmn'
then in this part of the code
split i_text at '/' into table itab2.
itab2 will have the records looking like this
aaaa
bbb
ccc
dddd
efghijk
lmn'

How to display records into a non table base block..

Hi,
Can anybody help me how to display records into a non table base block....
Find below is my coding but it only display the last record in the first line
in the block.
PROCEDURE CREATE_CARTON_QUESTION IS
CURSOR car_c IS
select /*+ rule */ question_id, question_description
from WHOP.QADB_QUESTIONS
where question_category = 'Carton'
and question_active_flag = 'Y';
v_found VARCHAR2(10);
v_status boolean;
v_error      varchar2(150);
v_count number;
car_r car_c%rowtype;
begin
begin
select count(*) into v_count
from WHOP.QADB_QUESTIONS
where question_category = 'Carton'
and question_active_flag = 'Y';
     exception
     when no_data_found then
     v_count := 0;
end;
if v_count > 0 then
for car_r in car_c loop
---populating carton questions
:la_carton.carton_question_id     := car_r.question_id;
:la_carton.carton_question_answer     := 'N';
:la_carton.carton_error_details     := null;
:la_carton.attribute2          := car_r.question_description;
end loop;
end if;
end;
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Jun

Hi SNatapov,
Thanks for you reply but still I get this error...
FRM-40737 Illegal restricted procedure GO_BLOCK in WHEN-VALIDATE-ITEM trigger.
Please note that I call that program unit in the last field of my control block inside when-validate-item trigger the questions should be display in la_carton block which is my non-base table block.
Find below is the code....
begin
go_block('la_carton');
first_record;
for car_r in car_c loop
---populating carton questions
:la_carton.carton_question_id := car_r.question_id;
:la_carton.carton_question_answer := 'N';
:la_carton.carton_error_details := null;
:la_carton.attribute2 := car_r.question_description;
next_record;
end loop;
end;
Hoping you can help me this problem...
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Jun

Inserting records into a table with all caps

Hello
I have a procedure that inserts records into a table. How do I ensure that the text values inserted are recorded all capital letters into the table?
Thanks.

You can use UPPER(..) function in your insert statement, so that values are converted to UPPER, before insert.
If you want to check at table level, you can achieve that by writting a before insert trigger and in that trigger check
IF UPPER(:new.<col>) != :new.<col> THEN
RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20101,'Error: Not all values are in upper case')
END IF;

Write records into a file

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE test IS
    cursor    cur is
      select dname||';'||loc dnlo
      from   dept;
rec          cur%ROWTYPE;
v_returncode number;
BEGIN
   open cur;
   loop
       fetch cur into rec;
       exit when cur%notfound;
       v_returncode:= write_file(rec.dnlo);
       dbms_output.put_line(rec.dnlo);
   end loop;
   close cur;
END test;
SQL> exec test
ACCOUNTING;NEW YORK
RESEARCH;DALLAS
SALES;CHICAGO
OPERATIONS;BOSTON
SALES;LAS VEGAS
PL/SQL-Prozedur wurde erfolgreich abgeschlossen.
SQL> The program wrote 5 records into the file.txt (5 calls). Normally i must write
at about 2 million records into the file. It is possible, to write the records into
the file with one call, like a array or a ref_cursor (input parameter of the function write_file) instead of calling the function 2 millon times in a loop?
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mad

Couldn't help commenting cos that has got to be one of the best drive/folder name combinations I've seen in a long time. :))
v_FileHandle:= UTL_FILE.FOPEN('s:\hit', v_FileName, p_FileModus, C_MAXLINESIZE);Seriously though, when working with UTL_FILE you should use directory objects to ensure proper security... note...
The UTL_FILE_DIR parameter has been deprecated by oracle in favour of direcory objects because of it's security problems.
The correct thing to do is to create a directory object e.g.:
CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY mydir AS 'c:\myfiles';Note: This does not create the directory on the file system. You have to do that yourself and ensure that oracle has permission to read/write to that file system directory.
Then, grant permission to the users who require access e.g....
GRANT READ,WRITE ON DIRECTORY mydir TO myuser;
Then use that directory object inside your FOPEN statement e.g.
fh := UTL_FILE.FOPEN('MYDIR', 'myfile.txt', 'r');Note: You MUST specify the directory object name in quotes and in UPPER case for this to work as it is a string that is referring to a database object name which will have been stored in uppercase by default.
;)

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