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["Laimutis Nedzinskas" <Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simple is good: 

Import into staging table with all columns varchar2(4000) and do whatever 
conversions, checks and validations you want in pl/sql 

P.s. if performance, space or pl/sql knowledge is an issue then you can try to 
load into the target table in one pass but I would not recommend that. 

P.s.s. performance and space constraints could be lifted with external tables ( 
all columns varchar2(4000) of course! )

Laimutis Nedzinskas
Landsbanki Íslands hf.
Gagnagrunnsstjóri / DBA
Upplýsingatæknisvið / Gagnagrunnar
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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Harvinder Singh
Sent: 3. október 2007 19:44
To: oracle-l
Subject: Date conversion question

Hi,

We have a flat file that contains a column and the values are stored as:
991123
421
60823
0
70930

Now we are moving data from flat file to table and this column will be inserted 
into Date dataype column, What is the way to insert into this table and avoid 
"ORA-01821: date format not recognized" errors.

Thanks
--Harvinder

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