You're first suggestion worked. Thank you. ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Sharples Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 3:43 PM To: Coleman, Kelley (HAC) Cc: Oracle-L@Freelists Subject: Re: DIRECTORY Objects in RAC connect to instance one and load it in (not any of the others) better yet, put it on shared storage On 10/04/06, Coleman, Kelley (HAC) <Kelley.Coleman@xxxxxx> wrote: I'm trying to create an external table for a short-term need. I've been able to do this in development databases with little problem. However, now that I'm up to the Production server, I'm hitting a snag. My Production databases is RAC. I moved the .csv file to node 1. Is that the problem? I can get the table created, but when I go to view the results, I get the following errors in TOAD: