Create an Excel Spreadsheet from a Oracle Database

Question

I have a table in a Oracle database. I have to create a complex spreadsheet structure from the Oracle table. I am looking for best approach to achieve this. Can I use SSIS o

Answer 1

The first thing I would try is just dumping the values I wanted to CSV. Excel should be able to import that just fine, and it's often easier to fiddle with Excel formulas, etc., manually than to try to automate it. If you're using Oracle SQLDeveloper, there's an option to export results to CSV. If you're using SQL*Plus, then you can use set colsep , to make Oracle use commas to separate the columns. You'll probably want to do some more formatting tweaks if you're using SQL*Plus, though.