SPOOL is an acronym for simultaneous peripheral operations on-line. It is a type of buffering. The most common spooling application is print spooling, which places a task (or 'print job') into a queue for extended or later processing.
Questions tagged [spool]
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Ways to avoid eager spool operations on SQL Server
I have an ETL process that involves a stored procedure that makes heavy use of SELECT INTO statements (minimally logged and therefore faster as they generate less log traffic). Of the batch of work that takes place in one particular stored the…

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Remove Column Header into the Output Text file
I want to create a flat file (text file) of my query from Oracle SQL Developer.
I have successfully created the text file using SPOOL, thru a script text file, but i want to remove the header of each column into my output.
I am getting this…

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sqlplus spooling: How to get rid of first, empty line?
I'm doing the following spooling statement:
SET VERIFY OFF
SET FEEDBACK OFF
SET HEADING OFF
SET TRIMSPOOL ON
SET TERM OFF
SPOOL &pathRelations
START scripts/relations.sql &parent
SPOOL OFF
SET TERM ON
The scripts/relations.sql file contains a…
user321068
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Clear the heading in Oracle spool
I have spooled a file before running the below command and got the output like this,
I have set heading off, feedback off
SET HEADING OFF
SET FEEDBACK OFF
SPOOL D:\TEST.TXT
SELECT SYSDATE FROM DUAL;
SPOOL OFF
OUTPUT in TEST.TXT:
SQL> SELECT SYSDATE…

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Append to spool file Oracle
I have one script file called Test.sql in D:\Scripts folder and the content of the file is given below
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
SET DEFINE OFF
SPOOL Test.log;
SELECT USER_NAME FROM TUP_USER WHERE USER_ID=1432;
SPOOL OFF;
SET DEFINE ON
SET…

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How to send spool from swiftmailer without using command
How to send spool from swiftmailer without using command?
php app/console swiftmailer:spool:send --env=prod
I need to put this somehow into php file so that Server admin can add this to Schedule.

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PostgreSQL query/error logging for .sql scripts
Here is the problem: I need to know how to get all PostgreSQL output from an executed .sql script to log to a file, including errors and query results.
I have already surrounded my script with \o and \o opening and closing tags, but this only logs…

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How to create a oracle sql script spool file
I have a question about spooling the the results of my program. My sample sql script looks like this.
whenever sqlerror exit failure rollback
set heading off
set arraysize 1
set newpage 0
set pages 0
set feedback off
set echo off
set…

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Coldfusion 9, How do you Empty an "Undelivered Mail Queue"
I have roughly 9,000 undelivered messages in my mail spool in Coldfusion 9. As far as I can tell the only way to manage these messages is to manipulate them 10 at a time through the CF Admin GUI.
I'm looking for a way to expedite this process. I'd…

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Header formatting while spooling a csv file in sqlplus
I am required to spool a csv from a table in Oracle, using sqlplus. Following is the format required:
"HOST_SITE_TX_ID","SITE_ID","SITETX_TX_ID","SITETX_HELP_ID"
"664436565","16","2195301","0"
"664700792","52","1099970","0"
Following is the…

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How to define an additional mailer service to use the spool and send instant emails in Symfony2
In my Symfony2 web app I'm supposed to send two kind of emails: instant and bulk. The instant emails should be send right away while the bulk emails should be send using the spool. With the default configuration of the Swiftmailer in Symfony2 it is…

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Prevent output of SPOOL from being wrapped
I'm trying to generate all DDLs for objects in a Database using the SPOOL command in SQLPLUS:
SET trimspool ON
SET wrap off
SET heading off
SET linesize 300
SET echo off
SET pages 999
SET long 90000
Col object_type format a10000
Col object_name…

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Counting the number of printed pages in C#
I am developing a print spool monitor to count the number of pages that are printed by a certain printer.
I am new to this area, so I am using the following article as my reference.
Print Monitor
Now I have a requirement of counting the double sided…

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SQLPlus - spooling to multiple files from PL/SQL blocks
I have a query that returns a lot of data into a CSV file. So much, in fact, that Excel can't open it - there are too many rows. Is there a way to control spool to spool to a new file everytime 65000 rows have been processed? Ideally, I'd like to…

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spool with column headers in pipe delimited sqlplus
I currently am spooling a pipe file via this sqlplus script:
set feedback off
set echo off
set verify off
set pagesize 0
set heading off
set termout off
set trim on
set wrap on
set trimspool on
set linesize…

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