Re: SQLLDR Question

From: <Diana_Duncan_at_ttpartners.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:54:32 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0030DA4F.20010524101126@fatcity.com>

In 8.1.6, you don't have to have the one column in the database. Use 'FILLER' as the data type.

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You can combine two data fields into one column with sqlldr, but I think both
fields have to be in the table.

Example:
SQL> desc x

 Name                  Type
 --------------------- ------------------------------------
 TRANS_DATE            DATE
 F1                    CHAR(8)

LOAD DATA
INFILE *
APPEND
INTO TABLE x
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
(f1,

trans_date "to_date(:f1||' '||:trans_date,'mm/dd/yy hh24:mi')" )
BEGINDATA
05/01/01,14:21
05/24/01,9:57

(After the load, you can ALTER TABLE table DROP COLUMN column to get rid of
the
f1 column,)

Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com> on 05/23/2001 11:16:00 PM

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Instead of trying to do this in SQL Loader, why not just try to clean up the data?

This can be done at least 2 methods:

Get the sender to send it to you properly
clean it up yourself.

The following Perl script will do it

Jared

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $file="data.txt";
open(DATA,$file) || die "cannot open $file - $!\n";

while(<DATA>){

        chomp;
        my @data = split(/,/);
        # append last field to penultimate field, remove last field
        $data[ $#data -1] .= "-" . $data[ $#data ];
        undef $data[ $#data ];

        #print it all out
        my $newData =  join(',',@data);
        # remove trailing comma
        chop $newData;
        print "$newData\n";

}

On Wednesday 23 May 2001 14:41, Scott Canaan wrote:

>     I am trying to load a file that has the fields comma-delimited,
> variable length.  A sample line from the file looks like this:
>
> 503,414081660,Success,Auth,AH9042,z,4555,-,-,-,0,05/01/01,14:21
>
> The problem I am having is putting the date and time together.  The
> control file looks like this:
>
> load data
> infile 'cyber_real.dat'
> append
> into table rit_cyber_hist
> when order_id <> 'Order ID' and order_id <> ''
> fields terminated by ','
> (order_id,
>  trans_nbr,
>  cyber_status,
>  trans_type,
>  auth_code,
>  avs_code,
>  trans_amt,
>  cic_resp,
>  po_nbr,
>  ship_to_zip,
>  tax_amt,
>  trans_date date(14) "mm/dd/yy,hh:mi")
>
> It ignores the time portion of the file, I presume because it has a
> comma before it and it assumes that it is a different field.  I can't
> figure out any way to get this loaded with the trans_date field
> containing both the date and time.
>
>     This is on Oracle 8.1.6.0 on Sun Solaris.
>
> Any suggestions?  Thank you.
>
> --
> Scott Canaan (srcdco_at_rit.edu)
> (716) 475-7886
> "Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put
> into it" - Tom Lehrer

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