how to increase sqlplus column output length?

Question

I have some queries to find out the ddl of some objects from a schema. The result columns I am getting are truncated in the middle of the queries.

How can I increase the

Answer 1

What I use:

set long 50000
set linesize 130

col x format a80 word_wrapped;
select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLESPACE','LM_THIN_DATA') x from dual;

Or am I missing something?

Answer 2

Actually, even that didn't work for me. When I executed "select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLESPACE','TABLESPACE_NAME') from dual;" I again got only the first three lines, but this time each line was padded out to 15,000 characters. I was able to work around this with:

select substr(dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLESPACE','LM_THIN_DATA'),80) from dual;
select substr(dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLESPACE','LM_THIN_DATA'),160) from dual;
select substr(dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLESPACE','LM_THIN_DATA'),240) from dual;

It sure seemed like there ought to be an easier way, but I couldn't seem to find it.

Answer 3

Try this

COLUMN col_name FORMAT A24

where 24 is you width.

Answer 4

None of these suggestions were working for me. I finally found something else I could do - dbms_output.put_line. For example:

SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
begin
for i in (select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('INDEX', index_name, owner) as ddl from all_indexes where owner = 'MYUSER') loop
  dbms_output.put_line(i.ddl);
end loop;
end;
/

Boom. It printed out everything I wanted - no truncating or anything like that. And that works straight in sqlplus - no need to put it in a separate file or anything.