Export Query Results to CSV with SQL Developer

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One of the most universal data interchange formats in the world is the CSV file. Data professionals use CSV’s without a thought. Equally, those not even in the ‘ data field’ use CSV’s on a daily basis. Do you have the SQL query results for that report and need to share them in CSV format? Using the Oracle SQL Developer IDE, it is a breeze…

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There are times as an SQL Professional you have to go deep in the thick of it to get that data and those insights out of the database. Providing information from data is part of our jobs. Taking it a step further, oftentimes others’ in the workflow need that same data and those same insights to do their best work. And what is one of the most understood and easiest ways to share data?

The CSV file.

If you are working with the Oracle database and using SQL Developer, the IDE has an easy-to-use interface for exporting data. You can export query results to various formats however, in this post, we will look at saving them to a CSV file.