Re: Sqlloader

The use of "TRUNCATE" will delete all rows before starting the load process.

• sqlldr username/password log=ar.hist.log control=load_raw_pick.ctl OPTIONS (DIRECT=TRUE, ERRORS=99999) UNRECOVERABLE LOAD DATA INFILE FaxCovers0416.csv BADFILE fax.bad DISCARDFILE fax.dsc DISCARDMAX 99999 TRUNCATE INTO TABLE fax_archive FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY X'27' ( AccountNumber, Comments, CreatedBy, CreatedByID, CreatedOn, FirstName, LastModBy, LastModByID, LastModOn, LastName, Sheets, Subject )

Gregory Conron wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Roland.Skoldblom_at_ica.se wrote:
> > How can I within sqllldr call a pl/sql-procedure which deletes all rows from a
>table?
>
> You can't. You can, however, do one of two things:
> a) create a top level shell scripts which will first call a pl/sql procedure to
> delete the rows then call sqlldr.
> or
> b) if you are only deleting all the rows in the table, use either the replace
> (which deletes everything in the target table) or truncate (which truncates the
> target table) options in your sqlloader control file.
>
> Cheers,
> GC
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