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Re: how to load data from Excel sheet into Oracle tables using SQL*LOADER

From: Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw_at_centrexcc.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:42:07 -0700
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Quoting Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams_at_gmail.com>:

> One problem I have encountered is that Microsoft will enclose a field in
> delimiters when you "need" it. That means that for a given field, sometimes
> it is enclosed in delimiters and sometimes not. Such inconsistency is hard
> for SQL*Loader to deal with. I don't have a solution for this one, just
> pointing out a problem that you may or may not encounter.
>

Why doesn't "optionally enclosed by..." work for you?

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Wolfgang Breitling
Oracle 7,8,8i,9i OCP DBA
Centrex Consulting Corporation
www.centrexcc.com

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