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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • Sounds like your Oracle columns are char datatype. Do you have the option of changing the char columns to varchar2 and then triming the contents of the columns? (that would at least deal with the trailing whitespace issue)
    i.e.:

    SQL> CREATE TABLE temp_ggs (col1 CHAR(2), col2 CHAR(4), col3 CHAR(20), col4 DATE, col5 NUMBER);

    Table created.

    SQL> DESC temp_ggs

    ...

    SQL> SELECT 'ALTER TABLE ' || table_name || ' MODIFY ' || column_name || ' VARCHAR2(' || data_length || ');'
    FROM all_tab_columns
    WHERE data_type =
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