Run RMAN using UTL_FILE

Hi
With regards to RMAN, Should we run the RMAN program via UTL_FILE .
If so, please inform how to do that.
Regards
Kumar

I think you are confused regarding what UTL_FILE does.
UTL_FILE
With the UTL_FILE package, your PL/SQL programs can read and write operating system text files. UTL_FILE provides a restricted version of operating system stream file I/O.
UTL_FILE I/O capabilities are similar to standard operating system stream file I/O (OPEN, GET, PUT, CLOSE) capabilities, but with some limitations. For example, you call the FOPEN function to return a file handle, which you use in subsequent calls to GET_LINE or PUT to perform stream I/O to a file. When file I/O is done, you call FCLOSE to complete any output and free resources associated with the file.
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96612/u_file.htm#ARPLS069
Clarify better what you want to do please.
Joel Pérez
http://otn.oracle.com/experts

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We need to export a large amount of data from some Oracle tables to be uploaded into a Sybase database using BCP. I had no issues exporting the data using the PUT_LINE command using the open command below.
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893730 wrote:
We need to export a large amount of data from some Oracle tables to be uploaded into a Sybase database using BCP. I had no issues exporting the data using the PUT_LINE command using the open command below.
l_file := utl_file.fopen( l_dir, l_name, 'W',32767);
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ORA-29285: file write error
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 77
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 690
ORA-06512: at "ADVCONV.P_WRITE", line 244
ORA-06512: at line 2.
If I use UTL_FILE.PUT to export smaller tables these errors do not occur so it looks like our data is larger then some limit. Does anyone have any suggestions/solutions? Thanks
>We need to export a large amount of data from some Oracle tables to be uploaded into a Sybase database using BCP. I had no issues exporting the data using the PUT_LINE command using the open command below.
l_file := utl_file.fopen( l_dir, l_name, 'W',32767);
The problem is, we do not want to use system's default line terminators because our data may contain embedded line terminators; We want to defined our own line terminators. But when we changed from UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE to UTL_FILE.PUT the application will run for a few seconds and then produce the following errors:
ORA-29285: file write error
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 77
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 690
ORA-06512: at "ADVCONV.P_WRITE", line 244
ORA-06512: at line 2.
If I use UTL_FILE.PUT to export smaller tables these errors do not occur so it looks like our data is larger then some limit. Does anyone have any suggestions/solutions? Thanks
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Hi ,
Would like to know how i can use UTL_FILE :
This is an sample from the web :
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f utl_file.file_type;
s varchar2(200) := 'this is some info';
begin
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tks & rgds

Hi!
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While spooling out data into a file using UTL_FILE package I am unable spool the data The column data has a size of 2531 characters
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= ''BMS Commitment Link'') union all (select ''BMS'' system_nme, to_char(to_date(''01'' || lpad(trim(to_char(certification_as_of_month_yr)),6,''0''),''ddmmyyyy''),''dd-mon-yyyy'') period_start_date, to_char(last_day(to_date(''12'' || lpad(trim(to_char(certification_as_
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from dual
--2531
begin
SSUBRAMANIAN.transformation_utl_file;
end;
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TRANSFORMATION_NME VARCHAR2(40),
SOURCE_WHERE_CLAUSE_TEXT VARCHAR2(4000)
ORGANIZATION external
type oracle_loader
default directory UTLFILELOAD
ACCESS PARAMETERS
records delimited by newline CHARACTERSET US7ASCII
BADFILE UTLFILELOAD:'transformation.bad'
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A couple of things.
This is wrong:
l_dir VARCHAR2 (10) := 'c:/orders';It must be the name of a directory object, created via the "+CREATE DIRECTORY+" command. Dir objects are (database) aliases for physical paths. Like any other db object, it provides a security layer that allows one to control access to it. You do not want any and all db sessions to access the root drive on that server.
Not necessary:
v_array t_array := t_array ();You are calling the constructor to create an empty array. Not needed as the bulk collect does that for you. Simply define the variable - the bulk collect takes the responsibility for initialising and populating it.
Review:
parallel ( qdm 8) Personally I dislike such hints, hints forcing indexes and so on. Reason is that the developer is second guessing the CBO. Yes, you may have the right values for the development db and its data set. It may even work for production for a while. But production is very seldom static. Process loads varies. Data volumes increases. Even the database model changes (e.g. new columns, new indexes, etc). H/w changes (e.g. more CPUs, more memory, etc).
By second guessing the CBO, the developer makes it very hard for the DBA and CBO properly manage performance and scalability on the server.
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Error while run rman backu plus archivelog to tape

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besides that, you could inform us of the platform, OS, DB version that you are using.
br,
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want_to_be_a_dba wrote:
But i have to give the data to clients. So I will have to take it?I understand the limitations you face, but shouldn't the data be kept in the database and let the clients use a database application to manipulate the data?
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