ORACLE How to use spool with dynamic spool location

Question

Ok, so i\'m a complete newb with oracle. Now that that\'s out of the way;

I think you can get an understand of what i\'m trying to do below. For each stored procedur

Answer 1

SPOOL is a SQLPlus directive and you can't mix it into the PL/SQL anonymous block. If you're going to do this purely in SQLPlus, I think the general idea would be to process in two passes, i.e. use a first script that dynamically generates the spool filename references into a second script that actually makes the dbms_metadata call.

[Edit]

This should be close to what you need - maybe a line termination problem, depending on your platform:

    set pagesize 0
    set linesize 300
    spool wrapper.sql
    select
    'spool '||object_name||'.sql'||chr(10)||
    'begin 
    dbms_metadata.get_ddl('||chr(39)||object_type||chr(39)||','||chr(39)||object_name||chr(39)||')'||' end;'||chr(10)||
    '/'||chr(10)||
    'spool off'
    from user_objects
    where object_type = 'PROCEDURE'
;
spool off

Answer 2

I think UTL_FILE would be much better suited for your needs here. SPOOL is really supposed to be a command to instruct sqlplus to write the output to a file. Typically I use this for stuff like ... "hey DBA run my script and send me the output".

First you need to define a directory. Syntax is easy:

CREATE DIRECTORY SQLOUTPUT AS 'c:\temp\';

Now you can use that in your code:

DECLARE

  -- Get all procedure from All_Objects
  -- You could expand this to pass in the object_type you are looking for
  CURSOR csr IS
    SELECT object_type
      , object_name
    FROM All_Objects
    WHERE object_type = 'PROCEDURE'
    AND owner = 'AMS';

  -- define a file handler type
  outputfile UTL_FILE.file_type;

BEGIN

FOR c IN csr LOOP

  -- open your file using the procedure name from the cursor
  outputfile := UTL_FILE.fopen('SQLOUTPUT',c.object_name||'.prc.sql','W');

  -- output the metadata results just like DBMS_OUTPUT except to a file
  UTL_FILE.put_line(outputfile, DBMS_METADATA.get_ddl(c.object_type, c.object_name));

  -- make sure to close the file when you are done.
  UTL_FILE.fclose(outputfile);

END LOOP;
  -- go home early today ...
END;

Answer 3

I found a better solution without the need to declare/begin/end code blocks or query statements.

A sample spool filename with the date and time can be achieved by:

sql> column dt new_value _dt 
sql> select to_char(sysdate,'ddMONyyyy_hh24mi') dt from dual; 
sql> spool &_dt

My file name:

27JUN2011_1727.lst

You can even specify the file extension if you need to (eg .txt). Just create another variable.

source: http://oracle.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/oracle-apps-l/variable-file-name-with-spool-1508529