RE: SQL*Loader Date error (ORA-01858)

From: Ruth Gramolini <rgramolini_at_tax.state.vt.us>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 15:10:17 -0500
Message-ID: <009301c5fc33$682eb3f0$bb59000a@vttaxnet.tax.state.vt.us>

RE: SQL*Loader Date error (ORA-01858)If you check it out, the timestamp is not even a date field. It is its own type of data.

Ruth
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Hostetter, Jay M
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:45 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: SQL*Loader Date error (ORA-01858)

Madhavi,

  I wonder if sql*loader is having trouble with the column name TIMESTAMP? Could you test it with a different column name?   Also, if the datatype of the TIMESTAMP column is TIMESTAMP, then you should try TO_TIMESTAMP instead of TO_DATE. The implicit conversion could be an issue.

Jay

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jim Silverman
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:32 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: SQL*Loader Date error (ORA-01858)

This may be a silly question, but are you sure that the column names in the controlfile correspond properly to the columns in your table RE_STATS_STAGING? In particular, are you sure that the datatypes of the input data (including the timestamp constant) are compatible with the datatypes in the table definition?

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Jim Silverman
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Solucient, LLC
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Madhavi Kanugo

    Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:20 PM     To: 'oracle-l_at_freelists.org'
    Subject: SQL*Loader Date error (ORA-01858)

    Hello All,

    I'm trying to load data using SQL Loader and ran into the ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected error.

    Below is my control file. As you can see, the timestamp is a constant field and I am loading its value from the filename of the data files. I am executing the sql loader from a shell script and creating the control file on the fly. The filename is in the form of: 20051206130101.txt So basically, the shell script replaces the when_changed value with 20051206130101.

    I created a temp table with just a date field and tried to insert a value into it. Insert into temp values
(to_date('20051207160752','YYYYMMDDHH24MISS')); and there is no error and date conversion is implict.

    But SQLLOADER is erring out on ORA-01858.

    LOAD DATA     INFILE FILENAME     APPEND     INTO TABLE RE_STATS_STAGING     FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'         TRAILING NULLCOLS     (

      RE_NAME,       TG_TYPE,       TRUNKGROUP,       CONNECTS,       HANGUPS,       DECLINES,

                LOOPS,

                SECONDS,

                CC_CONNECTED,

                CC_SETUP,

                TIMESTAMP CONSTANT

"to_date('_when_changed_','YYYYMMDDHH24MISS')"

            )

    Any ideas on where I am going wrong? Any thoughts or help will be appreciated.

    Thanks in advance,

    Madhavi

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