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Piping STDIN to SQLLDR on Windows [message #391810]

Fri, 13 March 2009 12:24

Rudolphk
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I am having trouble replicating functionality I commonly employ on Unix.

In Unix a typical command would be:

gzcat somefile.dat | sqlldr userid=foo/bar control=mycontrol.ctl

and the control file has specified:

INFILE '-'

How do I replicate this in Windows? I keep getting errors like "Unable to open file (-.dat)". I really want to avoid having to work with named pipes.

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Re: Piping STDIN to SQLLDR on Windows [message #391814 is a reply to message #391810]

Fri, 13 March 2009 12:59

Michel Cadot
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As far as I lknow, you can't do the same thing in Windows.

Regards
Michel

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Re: Piping STDIN to SQLLDR on Windows [message #391815 is a reply to message #391810]

Fri, 13 March 2009 13:15

Mahesh Rajendran
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***Untested code***
It is been long time I did anything in Windows. Something like this should work

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type dept.dat | sqlldr userid=scott/tiger control=somectl.ctl data=\"-\"

Edit:
Tested and worked fine.

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Re: Piping STDIN to SQLLDR on Windows [message #391820 is a reply to message #391810]

Fri, 13 March 2009 13:56

Rudolphk
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hmmm. I don't know why it doesn't work on my machine. I tried the data=\"-\" at the command line and got the same error.

Windows XP. Oracle SQLLDR 10.2.0.1

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Re: Piping STDIN to SQLLDR on Windows [message #391821 is a reply to message #391820]

Fri, 13 March 2009 13:58

Mahesh Rajendran
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I did not specify infile inside the control file.
Did you?

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Re: Piping STDIN to SQLLDR on Windows [message #391822 is a reply to message #391810]

Fri, 13 March 2009 14:00

Rudolphk
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Yes, I had removed the INFILE parameter from the control file prior to rerunning my test.

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Re: Piping STDIN to SQLLDR on Windows [message #391823 is a reply to message #391822]

Fri, 13 March 2009 14:15

Mahesh Rajendran
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Bug 4944120
Works upto 10.1.0.4 . No more works for 10.2.0.1 on windows.
Seems you are lucked out!.

[Updated on: Fri, 13 March 2009 14:17]

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