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External tables with DML Error logging feature in 10g [message #146905] Mon, 14 November 2005 10:00 Go to next message
peddi_praveen
Messages: 2
Registered: November 2005
Junior Member
Hi,
I'm new to Oracle,(till date SQL server guy, Smile).

We are working on data load options and evaluating diff options.

After going thru below link,
http://www.dbspecialists.com/presentations/load_faster.html

I had narrowed down my options to

choice 1:SQL Loader Direct Path -
choice 2:CREATE as SELECT Using External Table
(Let us restrict the optios to SQL Loader as data pump is ruled out.)

in addition, in Oracle 10g, (new feature) we can log the errors for dml failure and still we can decide whether to commit or rollback.
follow the links.
http://www.orafaq.com/node/76
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/DmlErrorLogging_10gR2.php


If we can club both the features "loading using external tables" and "DML Error logging", we will be able to get best out of Oracle.
Is this possible? Did any body tried it? Pl Provide updates and script as well.

Regards,
Praveen

Re: External tables with DML Error logging feature in 10g [message #146960 is a reply to message #146905] Mon, 14 November 2005 22:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
rleishman
Messages: 3728
Registered: October 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Senior Member
Great idea, well spotted.

We're developing a warehouse on 10.1 so have not used the Error Logging clause. It looks great though.

I can't see any reason why you could not combine EOTs and Error Logging. Remember though, rows that do not meet the SQL*Loader format spec in the EOT will be logged to the EOT Log file, not to the DML Error table.

There is nothing in the doco to suggest that DML Error Logging is incompatible with Direct-Path load, but it would be worth a bit of experimentation. Certainly you cannot have triggers enabled for direct-path load, so DML Error Logging won't catch these. Be interesting to see what it does with constraint violations, most of which are validated AFTER the direct-path load is complete.

Good luck. Tell us how it goes.

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Ross Leishman
Re: External tables with DML Error logging feature in 10g [message #147076 is a reply to message #146905] Tue, 15 November 2005 12:51 Go to previous message
smartin
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Registered: March 2005
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Senior Member
I like the idea as well, and would guess there is nothing to prevent it. BUT, as Ross pointed out, I'm not sure the OP needs to go this route. The logs created by either sql loader or external tables would identify those problem rows, which is my guess as to the goal of the OP.
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