Re: Returned row count doesn't match lines in output file

Hello group,

 

I’m new to this group so please bear with me.

 

 

select count (u.user_id)

from users u, course_main cm, course_users cu

where cu.crsmain_pk1 = cm.pk1

and cu.users_pk1 = u.pk1

and cm.course_id = 'Org.dent.Training';

 

(4915 rows)

 

 

I’m executing an .sql file which looks like this:

 

\o /home/bbuser/banner/gradeload/sodorgusers.txt

\t on

select u.user_id||'|'||u.firstname||'|'||u.lastname||'|'||u.email||'|'||u.student_id

from users u, course_main cm, course_users cu

where cu.crsmain_pk1 = cm.pk1

and cu.users_pk1 = u.pk1

and cm.course_id = 'Org.dent.Training'

order by u.lastname, u.firstname;

\t off

\o

 

When I look at the output file, it has a bunch of blank lines in between the records but displays a line count of 4916.  What is causing the blank lines?  When I strip away the blank lines from the file, I get 3525 lines.  Why aren’t all 4,915 records writing to the file?