John,
In 9i, Oracle is recommending that you make use of 'CREATE DIRECTORY' rather than UTL_FILE_DIR ... firstly because a directory can be created dynamically, so to adda new sub-directory you don't have to bounce the instance.
Plus instead of '*', you can dynamically create directory ... read/write and drop the directory if you wish.
I'd recommend you make use of this feature John, because UTL_FILE_DIR might just go away .... because of its limitations.
Raj
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Dunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 4:44 AM
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Subject: utl_file_dir and 9i
In 8i we set utl_file_dir = "*" because otherwise we have to specify lots of
individual directories. It was not possible to just specify a top level
directory.
Has this changed in 9i? Is it possible to specify a top level directory
and then utl_file can write to subdirectories?
John
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