Re: Inserting Large Amount of Data into LONG

From: <chris_at_thedunscombes.f2s.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:45:57 +0100
Message-ID: <1091605557.41109435c287b@webmail.freedom2surf.net>

Bill,

You can use SQL Loader with the STR attribute on the INFILE line e.g.

LOAD DATA
INFILE infile.dat "STR x'120A'"
INTO TABLE mytab

This says that the end of record delimiter is hex(120a) i.e. hex(12) + newline. Tom Kyte's Expert one-on-one bo0k Chapter 9 has all the details plus some other options.

I'm sure you could also do it via scripting languages such as Perl and Python and use an appropriate database driver (standard DBD/DBI for Perl and say cx_Oracle for Python).

HTH. Chris

Quoting "Magaliff, Bill" <Bill.Magaliff_at_lendware.com>:

> Hello:
>
> I have an engineer who would like to insert roughly 11K into a LONG column
> through SQL. It's ASCII "formatted" data (with carriage returns, spaces,
> etc.) that we will receive via XML. We can massage, reformat as needed but
> it needs to go into a LONG (using CLOB not an option due to other
> application incompatibilities).
>
> Straight SQL doesn't work (length of the quoted string too long) and I tried
> creating a Stored Proc to handle it, but I get Invalid Sql Statement - due I
> think to the presence of the carriage returns, which Oracle is not
> recognizing as a continuation from the previous line.
>
> Any thoughts on how to proceed?
>
> Thanks
>
> -bill magaliff
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