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Export Oracle table to Excel using dynamic filename with current date

Want to export Oracle data to Excel using current date as file name?

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Export Oracle data to Excel file using dynamic filename with date and time

Login to Oracle -> Choose Oracle table -> Set Excel filename template including date -> Export Oracle to Excel using current date as file name

Choose Oracle and logon.

“Export From Table” for “Excel to Oracle“.

Select Excel file type.

1. Choose Oracle table.

2. Set Excel file options. Enter filename template, including date, #yyyy# is for current year, #mm# month, #dd# day, #hh# hour, #mi# minute, #ss# second.

3. Preview Excel.

4. Export Oracle table data to Excel file. Dynamically created Excel file name using present system time.

After exporting, you can view output Excel files.


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Oracle → EXCEL reference

Type mapping

Value kindin Oraclein EXCEL
IntNUMBER(10)1234 (a real numeric cell)
BigintNUMBER(19)9007199254740993 (exact only while the cell stays text)
DecimalNUMBER(p,s)1234.56 (numeric cell, format controls the displayed decimals)
FloatBINARY_DOUBLE1.234E+10 (numeric cell)
TextVARCHAR2(n)text cell; leading zeros survive only if the column is text
Long textCLOBtext cell; wraps inside the cell rather than the row
DateDATEa serial number plus a date cell format
DatetimeTIMESTAMPa serial number plus a date-time cell format
BinaryBLOBnot representable as data
BooleanNUMBER(1)TRUE / FALSE (a real boolean cell)
JSONCLOBa text cell; the quotes are part of the value

Dialect differences

Oracle is a database server and EXCEL is a file format, so the gap is wider than a dialect difference - the rows below are where values and structure stop lining up.

Propertyin Oraclein EXCEL
port1521—
identifiers"double quotes"Not applicable; a cell holds exactly one value
row limitFETCH FIRST n ROWS ONLY—
datesDATE, TIMESTAMPStored as a serial number; only the cell format makes it lo...
long textCLOB, NCLOB—
binaryBLOB, BFILEOnly as text or an embedded object, not as a data column
separator—Cells, not delimiters
encoding—UTF-8 internally, declared in the package
typing—Real cell types: text, number, date, boolean, error
shapeTables of rows and columnsMultiple sheets, each a flat grid
ceiling—1,048,576 rows x 16,384 columns per sheet; 255 sheets per w...

Command line

SideCommand
Oracleexp / expdp
Oracle (load)sqlldr (SQL*Loader)

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