Re: excel data into oracle through sql loader

Hi

Workaround: Treat the Column as text (within Excel) and transform it with a little VBA Macro into the format you want to use in Oracle.

"Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane)" schrieb:
>
> Hi lists,
>
> I need to load the excel sheet data to oracle tables. A date column is
> improperly entered by users.
>
> In the excel sheet the date column was filled up without using hyphens
> or slashes
> the data is like this
>
> todays date: 10th Dec 2001
> (it is supposed to be 10/12/2001 or 10-Dec-2001 etc...)
>
> But it was entered in the cells as 101201
> When I formatted the data using the excel option cells -> format
>
> The data it is displaying in a strage format: 1/27/2177
>
> All the date values are displayed improperly.
>
> Does anybody come across such a situation. How to format the date cells
> in excelsheet.
> (should I change any options for the sheet)
>
> Thnx in advance,
>
> Srinivas
>
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