Oracle query output in excel

Question

I have an Oracle 10G database and I need to write a fairly straightforward query that joins two tables and selects some data. However, I'd like to export the result list to an excel, so end users can use this .xls document to see the results and filter by one of the fields (location)

When I write the query, is there an easy way I can generate/ create an excel document that would hold these results as described above? The SQL doesn't need to run from within excel, but I guess that would be a useful feature now that I think about it! Thanks.

Answer 1

There is simple solution for your request.

By using ora_excel, small pl/sql package which generates Excel xlsx file, you can select data and export selected data to Excel and set filtering.

Please see following example:

BEGIN    
    ORA_EXCEL.new_document;    

    ORA_EXCEL.add_sheet('My sheet');        
    ORA_EXCEL.query_to_sheet('select * from employees'); -- Select data from database   
    ORA_EXCEL.set_cells_filter('A1', 'K1'); -- Add cell filtering from column A1 to column K1    


    -- Save generated Excel to file with name example.xlsx to Oracle folder EXAMPLE_XLSX
    ORA_EXCEL.save_to_file('EXPORT_DIR', 'example.xlsx'); 
END; 

For more details please check here

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