Export to Excel

One more neat solution from Michaels about exporting the data to Excel in this otn post


set feed off markup html on spool on
alter session set nls_date_format='YYYY-MM-DD';
spool emp.xls
select * from emp;
spool off
set markup html off spool off

And it perfectly opens in Excel. No hassle with separator, no time lost in defining the column length, no bizarre xml format. Plain html, that is cool!

EMPNO ENAME JOB MGR HIREDATE SAL COMM DEPTNO
7369 SMITH CLERK 7902 1980-12-17 800   20
7499 ALLEN SALESMAN 7698 1981-02-20 1600 300 30
7521 WARD SALESMAN 7698 1981-02-22 1250 500 30
7566 JONES MANAGER 7839 1981-04-02 2975   20
7654 MARTIN SALESMAN 7698 1981-09-28 1250 1400 30
7698 BLAKE MANAGER 7839 1981-05-01 2850   30
7782 CLARK MANAGER 7839 1981-06-09 2450   10
7788 SCOTT ANALYST 7566 1987-04-19 3000   20
7839 KING PRESIDENT   1981-11-17 5000   10
7844 TURNER SALESMAN 7698 1981-09-08 1500 0 30
7876 ADAMS CLERK 7788 1987-05-23 1100   20
7900 JAMES CLERK 7698 1981-12-03 950   30
7902 FORD ANALYST 7566 1981-12-03 3000   20
7934 MILLER CLERK 7782 1982-01-23 1300   10

Simply great 😛

54 thoughts on “Export to Excel”

  2. Roger

    The output file is in HTML which can be opened in EXCEL.

    But when we use other software, in my case it was SAS, we tried to import the XLS file, but it is not real Excel 2003 XLS file.

    Is there any way to export from SQL*PLUS to real XLS format?

  3. Pingback: Generate Microsoft Office Documents from command line | Laurent Schneider

Comments are closed.