RE: SQL Loader questions

From: YTTRI Lisa <lisa.yttri_at_cnh.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:13:28 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.003B38B6.20011024121530@fatcity.com>

Thanks to all for reconfirming this for me. I had never heard of SQL Loader doing these things, but couldn't quite convince the programmer.

What I have since found out is that once upon a time, a consultant came in and set up the job that loads their data - and left without documenting it. Lo and behold, there's a lot of other stuff the script is doing besides running SQL Loader.

Thanks again for all your responses.
Lisa :D

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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 1:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

what documentation has your programmer been reading?

as far as I know you can't add a column on the fly through a sqlloader control file, nor will oracle do an update to existing data.

I'm not an expert, but I've never been able to do that

• YTTRI Lisa <lisa.yttri_at_cnh.com> wrote:
  > Hi everyone -
  >
  > I need some help. We have an application running on 8.0.5 on NT. My
  > programmer tells me that she should be able to add columns to a table
  > simply
  > by changing the sql loader control file definition of the input. I
  > have
  > looked through the documentation and tried several tests, but I can't
  > see
  > any way that this would work.
  >
  > Is this actually possible with SQL Loader?
  >
  > Also, she tells me that if a record exists in the table and she has
  > the same
  > record (key value only) in the input file, that SQL Loader should
  > update the
  > record with any changed field values. Is there a special keyword to
  > do this
  > - I can't seem to find anything on that either?
  >
  > Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
  >
  > Lisa
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