Re: nls_date_format problem in sqlldr

Ruth Gramolini wrote:
>
> Good morning,
>
> We are having a problem load a file containing dates in MON DD YYYY format
> into a database having and nls_date_format=YYYYMMDD. Is there a way to do
> an alter session command in the control file or the parameter file to that
> we can load this data?
>
> We have had the production database down for 4 days with various problems
> and this is the last straw.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ruth
>

You can specify in the SQL*LOADER control file the date mask with date columns. I know that syntactic schemas are not extremely explicit, but have a harder look at field descriptions in the manual.

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