Re: Can SQL *Loader parse data from a CLOB source rather than a file?

Brian,

Thanks for the information.

I can and have used PL/SQL to do similar parsing, but I have observed the parsing process to be slower than SQL*Loader, and these will be fairly large files. I figured SQL*Loader was probably optimized better than I could achieve by hand crafting my own code. Besides, I'd rather maintain and support just the SQL*Loader definitions rather than a chunk of PL/SQL code. But - given that SQL*Loader can't get the data from the file system, I don't have any choice!

Thanks,

Stan

Brian Peasland <dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message news:<3F2E9B83.8732BCEF_at_remove_spam.peasland.com>...

> SQL*Loader is a utility that will read datafiles, not data from within
> the database. SQL*Loader's job is to put data into the database. Since
> the data is already in the database, in a CLOB column, why not use
> straight SQL statements to parse your data? What is it that you think
> SQL*Loader can do that SQL (and/or PL/SQL) can't do?
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
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Received on Tue Aug 05 2003 - 06:02:06 CDT