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Create Directory in Oracle

Directories must be created in Oracle to allow external tables to access files outside the database. Directories are shown in dba_directories and all_directories views and read/write privileges can be granted on them. An example demonstrates creating a directory called 'dir_temp' pointing to a local folder and using utl_file to write lines of text to a file within that directory.

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Create Directory in Oracle

Directories must be created in Oracle to allow external tables to access files outside the database. Directories are shown in dba_directories and all_directories views and read/write privileges can be granted on them. An example demonstrates creating a directory called 'dir_temp' pointing to a local folder and using utl_file to write lines of text to a file within that directory.

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Create directory in Oracle

create or replace directory foo_dir as '/tmp';


Directories must be created if external tables are used.
Created directories are shown in either dba_directories or all_directories. There is no
user_directories.

Privileges
When a «directory» has been created, the read and write object privileges can be granted
on it:
create directory some_dir;
grant read, write on directory some_dir to micky_mouse;

An example
The following example shows how create directory and utl_file can be used to write text
into a file:
create or replace directory dir_temp as 'c:\temp';

declare
f utl_file.file_type;
begin
f := utl_file.fopen('DIR_TEMP', 'something.txt', 'w');
utl_file.put_line(f, 'line one: some text');
utl_file.put_line(f, 'line two: more text');
utl_file.fclose(f);
end;
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Links
See also On reading trace files with PL/SQL where a directory is used to read trace files
with PL/SQL.

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