Thanks everyone for the help. Here is how it's done, Data file ------------ Row1col1 Row1col2 Row1col3 Row2col1 Row2col2 Row2col3 Row3Col1 Row3Col2 Row3col3 Control file --------------- load data infile 'data.dat' "fix 27" into table san_test TRAILING NULLCOLS (n1 POSITION(1:8) CHAR TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE , n2 POSITION(10:17) CHAR TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE , n3 POSITION(19:26) CHAR TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE) San Sridharan <san_oracle_dba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I have a flatfile in the following format, Row1col1,Row1col2,Row1col3,Row2col1,Row2col2,Row2col3,Row3Col1, Row3Col2,Row3col3 (There is no line breaks between the different rows of data in the flatfile.) I need to load the above data into a table with the following structure, Create table Temp_load ( col1 varchar2(10), col2 varchar2(10), col3 varchar2(10) ); Can someone tell me how to load this data using SQLLOADER. Thanks, San David Sharples <davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I had the same problem, askTom to the rescuse need to create a function which returns an interval http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:::::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID:388480262167#49098749303720 On 10/26/05, t_adolph@xxxxxxxxxxx <t_adolph@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to setup snapshots to run every 15 minutes during working hours, else hourly. I'm ignoring weekends for now,... --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.