| SQL Loader: Sort the datafile [message #304692] |
Thu, 06 March 2008 03:36  |
@rpita
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Registered: February 2008
Location: Mumbai,India
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Is it somehow possible to sort the datafile coming in via SQL Loader. For example, we have fixed length data coming in and we know that columns 2 thru 10 is numeric data. Can we get the datafile sorted on these positions somehow before the load.
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| Re: SQL Loader: Sort the datafile [message #304700 is a reply to message #304692] |
Thu, 06 March 2008 04:57  |
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Littlefoot
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Registered: June 2005
Location: Croatia, Europe
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Even though you'd load a sorted file (doesn't matter how you'd do that (sorting, I mean)), it does NOT mean that "SELECT * FROM this_table" will return result which will be ordered by anything. If you want to fetch records ordered by something, you MUST use the ORDER BY clause in the SELECT statement.
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