Spool command through ODBC

Hi,
How do I run the oracle spool command through odbc?
If this is not possible, how do I export oracle data to a flat flie through odbc?
thanks
-bgc

I'm not aware of a way to call the spool command directly. I assume that you can call spool from a stored procedure. If so, you could create a stored procedure that calls spool, then execute the stored procedure via ODBC.
Exporting data to a flat file isn't something ODBC was designed to do. Assuming you managed to spool a file, you'd still have to get it from the database machine to the client. If you wanted to do this via ODBC, you'd have to convert the file to a B/CLOB in the database and fetch that B/CLOB via the appropriate SQL statement. The client application could then write the data back out to a file...
I suspect that you're trying to do something that ODBC isn't particularly suited for. You may want to double-check your design.
Justin

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Can you please help me to write the result of an sql query into a file with the last column of the row ending with a single space?
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As mentioned in the example the col3 value in the file should end with a single space. And there should not be any delimiters at the end of the row.
I tried with set trimspool on/off. But, it didn't work. When I say trimspool on - it is trimming all the trailing spaces.
When I say trimspool off - it is retaining all the trailing spaces to the size of the line.
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>
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