RE: OT: External table novelties
- From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:39:28 -0700
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 20:43, Ken Naim wrote:
> Well this is not that novel but might be worth including we use external
> tables as our "staging" tables for our data warehouse; It saves us from
> duplicating space as we can manipulate the data directly from the flat file
> and it allows us to do it all in one pass rather than two.
>
Appreciate the reply.
You are however doing exactly what external tables were designed for.
I'm trying to avoid that. :)
Jared
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