Automatically export result sets into csv

Question

I have to run several queries on an oracle 11g database , within SQLDeveloper 3.1 .

For example:

select * from product;
select * from customer;
select * from prices;

At the moment I am exporting the resultsets "per hand", I simply right-click onto the result and then export` it.

I would like to automatically save the resultset of each query in a specific folder.

Any recommendation how I could do that?

UPDATE

I tried using the csv and als the txt extesion of testFile :

spool C:\Users\User\Desktop\testFile.csv --I tried also .txt extension here!!!

set colsep ';'

select * from product;

spool off;

However, when I open the file I get for csv and txt the following result:

> set colsep '
> select * from product

I appreciate your replies!

Answer 1

set echo off

set feedback off
set linesize 1000
set pagesize 0
set sqlprompt ''
set trimspool on

spool output.csv

select  columnA || ',' || columnB || ',' || ...... 
from table 
where ...

spool off;
exit 0;

Then create a shell script that calls the sql file

sqlplus >/dev/null 2>&1 "user/pass@DATABASE" << EOF

whenever sqlerror exit 1

@file.sql
EOF

UPDATE just saw you are on windows, same principle still applies, you probably will need to use PowerShell

Answer 2

You can use Spool, http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14357/ch12043.htm

spool OutFile.txt
select row1||','||row2... from product; --format you prefer
spool off;