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Connor McDonald

Thanks for the question, Amar.

Asked: May 07, 2021 - 4:20 am UTC

Last updated: May 07, 2021 - 4:22 am UTC

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We have a requirement where we are generating .csv file from DB and placed it to a DB directory. We want to zip these .csv files so that size can be optimised. Could you please suggest a way to achieve it by using PL/SQL.

and Connor said...

Check out Anton's zip package - its pretty cool

https://github.com/yallie/as_zip

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