In data files of fixed-length record format, each field has the same start position and end position in every record. Fast Clone records these positions for all of the columns in the output control files. If the number of bytes of data in a field is less than the field length, Fast Clone can pad the field on the right with space characters. Use this format to unload data to files that use blank column and row separators.

To enable padding for all columns in fixed-length record format data files, use one of the following methods:

If you unload data to a fixed-length format file and configured Fast Clone to unload data from columns that have BLOB, CLOB, NCLOB, LONG, and LONG RAW datatypes to a separate file, Fast Clone unloads all of the column data. Otherwise, the maximum amount of data that Fast Clone unloads to a fixed-length format file is 8 KB.