Raj

>>When my programme tries to write to a file using the utl_file.putf ()
>>it is writing only 15000 records only. and after that it is erroring out.

Check this Ask Tom thread
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:::::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID:88212348059

You may need to supply a value for the max line length > default in the FOPEN call:

UTL_FILE.FOPEN (
location IN VARCHAR2,
filename IN VARCHAR2,
open_mode IN VARCHAR2,
max_linesize IN BINARY_INTEGER)
RETURN file_type;

max_linesize = Maximum number of characters per line, including the newline character, for this file. (minimum value 1, maximum value 32767). The default is approximately 1000 bytes. (Tom says 1022...)

Cheers Nigel
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