DELIMITED text files are popular ways of passing data around.
CSV anyone? The C stands for ‘Comma’ – regardless of what your smug European friends may have told you #TonguePlantedFIRMLYInCheek
Anyways, in SQL Developer, when using the export dialog to get a DELIMITED export for your dataset, you can set the delimiter and the string enclosure for your columns.
So in the command line interface AKA SQLcl:
So you could have BEER emoji separated values files…
Speaking of SET SQLFORMAT…
Back in October, we made a tweak to the ANSICONSOLE. It’s VERY configurable now in terms of how you want numbers displayed. Don’t miss this awesome post from @krisrice.