Ok, so i'm a complete newb with oracle. Now that that's out of the way;
I think you can get an understand of what i'm trying to do below.
For each stored procedure found, output the DDL to a filename with it's name.
The problem is i can't figure out how to get the spool target to pick up the value of FileName which is being set by the cursor.
DECLARE
objName varchar2(50);
FileName varchar2(50);
cursor curProcs is
select OBJECT_NAME into objName
FROM ALL_PROCEDURES WHERE OWNER = 'AMS'
ORDER BY OBJECT_NAME; -- get all procs in db
BEGIN
open curProcs;
if curProcs%ISOPEN THEN
LOOP
FETCH curProcs into objName;
EXIT WHEN curProcs%NOTFOUND;
FileName := 'C:\ ' || objName || '.PRC.SQL';
spool FileName; --BREAKS
DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('PROCEDURE',objName);
spool off;
END LOOP;
END IF;
END;
Any ideas as to where i'm going wrong? and if anyone has an example of this i would appreciate it greatly.
I feel i must be dancing around it because if i create a column initially
then
spool &ColName
i get a result, i just can't seem to dynmically change that &colname
Thanks for your help.
SPOOL is a SQLPlus directive and you can't mix it into the PL/SQL anonymous block. If you're going to do this purely in SQLPlus, I think the general idea would be to process in two passes, i.e. use a first script that dynamically generates the spool filename references into a second script that actually makes the dbms_metadata call.
[Edit]
This should be close to what you need - maybe a line termination problem, depending on your platform:
set pagesize 0
set linesize 300
spool wrapper.sql
select
'spool '||object_name||'.sql'||chr(10)||
'begin
dbms_metadata.get_ddl('||chr(39)||object_type||chr(39)||','||chr(39)||object_name||chr(39)||')'||' end;'||chr(10)||
'/'||chr(10)||
'spool off'
from user_objects
where object_type = 'PROCEDURE'
;
spool off
I found a better solution without the need to declare/begin/end code blocks or query statements.
A sample spool filename with the date and time can be achieved by:
sql> column dt new_value _dt
sql> select to_char(sysdate,'ddMONyyyy_hh24mi') dt from dual;
sql> spool &_dt
My file name:
27JUN2011_1727.lst
You can even specify the file extension if you need to (eg .txt). Just create another variable.
source:
http://oracle.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/oracle-apps-l/variable-file-name-with-spool-1508529
I think UTL_FILE would be much better suited for your needs here. SPOOL is really supposed to be a command to instruct sqlplus to write the output to a file. Typically I use this for stuff like ... "hey DBA run my script and send me the output".
First you need to define a directory. Syntax is easy:
CREATE DIRECTORY SQLOUTPUT AS 'c:\temp\';
Now you can use that in your code:
DECLARE
-- Get all procedure from All_Objects
-- You could expand this to pass in the object_type you are looking for
CURSOR csr IS
SELECT object_type
, object_name
FROM All_Objects
WHERE object_type = 'PROCEDURE'
AND owner = 'AMS';
-- define a file handler type
outputfile UTL_FILE.file_type;
BEGIN
FOR c IN csr LOOP
-- open your file using the procedure name from the cursor
outputfile := UTL_FILE.fopen('SQLOUTPUT',c.object_name||'.prc.sql','W');
-- output the metadata results just like DBMS_OUTPUT except to a file
UTL_FILE.put_line(outputfile, DBMS_METADATA.get_ddl(c.object_type, c.object_name));
-- make sure to close the file when you are done.
UTL_FILE.fclose(outputfile);
END LOOP;
-- go home early today ...
END;