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- sql Loader and the first field terminator [message #69327] Mon, 10 December 2001 17:54 Go to next message
Jim Willis
Messages: 11
Registered: October 2001
Junior Member
I have a file:
|1234|oupju|

there's really only 2 fields but good ol extractor from SAP puts in the "|" in the first column - so here's my question, how can I use the field terminated by '|' and bypass the first column because sql loader will treat that as null

here's my table
table A
( col1
col2
)

I hope this makes sense because I've looked at the online docs for sql loader and other than using "position", which I don't want to do and of course (sed to edit out the first occurance of | ) from the file, I'm hoping for a simpler solution. I've only described 2 of over 100 columns of a file - so you can see why I prefer not to use "position"

Thanks Jim

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- Re: sql Loader and the first field terminator [message #69330 is a reply to message #69327] Tue, 11 December 2001 03:58 Go to previous message
Suresh Vemulapalli
Messages: 624
Registered: August 2000
Senior Member
I think simple solution for this problem is cheating sqlloader. Add one extra column to your existing table, let's say dummy.

alter table tableA add dummy varchar2(1);

write control file like below

LOAD DATA
INFILE 'SAP.txt'
APPEND
INTO TABLE tableA
fields terminated by '|'
(dummy ,
col1 ,
col2 )

That's it.. As you know, we can always drop column (dummy) from table once load is done.

How about this solution?.

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