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 Image may be NSFW.
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#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.
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Don’t like commas as delimiters? Set your own.
So in the command line interface AKA SQLcl:
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The first argument defines the delimiter, the 2nd defines the left enclosure, and the 3rd defines the right enclosure.
So you could have BEER emoji separated values files…
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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.
