Oracle PL/SQL UTL_FILE.PUT buffering

Question

I\'m writing a large file > 7MB from an Oracle stored procedure and the requirements are to have no line termination characters (no carriage return/line feed) at the end of

Answer 1

Thanks for all the great responses, they have been very helpful. The java stored procedure looked like the way to go, but since we don't have a lot of java expertise in-house, it would be frowned upon by management. But, I was able to find a way to do this from the stored procedure. I had to open the file in write byte mode 'WB'. Then, for each record I'm writing to the file, I convert it to the RAW datatype with UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_RAW. Then use UTL_FILE.PUT_RAW to write to the file followed by any necessary FFLUSH calls to flush the buffers. The receiving system has been able to read the files; so far so good.