Spooling problem

Question

hi Team,
Can you please help me with the following:
I have a a table which has about 60K of records and has 60 columns to be shown in each row.
For this i spool it in SQL Plus and it generates a excel file of more than 200MB.
And this excel file does not opens up itself.
But if i generate this manually via any sql editor it generates a very small file say 40MB.
The issue that i had noticed was, there are spaces added after every column, it does not trims.
Even added trim(),ltrim(),rtrim but this also did not help.
Can you please help me in reducing the file size after spooling or any other better way.
Thanks
Bhupendra

Answer 1

please find the attached script:
set heading off
set verify off
set feedback off
set pagesize 0
set trimspool on
set linesize 7000
set termout off
spool h:/test1.txt;
select distinct ltrim(rtrim(T176608.ST_CD ,' ')) as c1,
ltrim(rtrim(T176608.LG_NM ,' ')) as c2,
ltrim(rtrim(T176608.FMR_SBU_CD ,' ')) as c3......
l
ltrim(rtrim(T176608.A_DOT_NAME ,' ')) as c59,
ltrim(rtrim(T176608.FMR_RLUP_IN ,' ')) as c60
from
TB_TRM_Data T176608
where ( T176608.RLUP_IN = 'Y') ;
spool off;