Waleed,
That is an answer. Opening and closing the files might be an option.
Unfortunately, I have to work within the environment I was given. The
application from which I'm extracting the data is poorly designed.
Space and memory are a problem, and the table containing the master
records is heavily chained and contains 27 million rows. Sorts, orders
and groups are not an option.
Thanks.
David A. Barbour
Oracle DBA
"Khedr, Waleed" wrote:
>
> I'm not answering the question but suggesting sorting your data on that date
> column and opening, writing to, and closing a file for every unique value
> for this date column.
>
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> Greetings,
>
> Had an situation today in 7.3.4.3 running on AIX v4.2. I was extracting
> data to several different files based on the date record using
> UTL_FILE. I found I couldn't have more than 10 files open at any given
> time. I know the default in 8i is 50 files, but I looked on OTN and
> couldn't find either the default number of files (has to be 10) or any
> way to change it for 7.3x.
>
> Does anyone know if it can be increased and how?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David A. Barbour
> Oracle DBA
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