I'm guessing this is a table issue, not a SQL Loader issue. For example, could you insert this number directly into the table via SQL*Plus? Try setting NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS=",." and retrying the insert in SQL*Plus. I'm thinking once you succeed at inserting it directly into the table, then SQL Loader will have no issue as well. --Tom On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, srinivasan Venkat wrote: > My test.txt contains > > 345.456,78 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l