RE: ** using decode in sql loader

From: A Joshi <ajoshi977_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:02:48 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20050204040248.71919.qmail@web60707.mail.yahoo.com>

Thank you Jon.  

the question is how can I specify sysdate in place of '34' in the example below.  

Please note that it is a date field :  

decode(:field1, 'current','<i want sysdate here>', :field1) i tried :sysdate and ':sysdate' and no luck. Thanks "Knight, Jon" <jknight_at_concordefs.com> wrote: It looks like you can.

>From Oracle's documentation:

field1 POSITION(1:4) INTEGER EXTERNAL
"decode(:field2, '22', '34', :field1)"

Jon Knight

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Subject: ** using decode in sql loader

Hi,
I would like to use decode in sqlloader to convert data. I have a date field that might have the text 'current' in which case I want to convert it into sysdate. Can that be done? Thanks for your help.

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