-----Original Message----- From: Marley, Darlene Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 1:11 PM To: 'Mercadante, Thomas F' Subject: RE: Sqlldr constants and dates w/timestamp Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Used the to_date without the CONSTANT and that did the trick. You folks are wonderful! -----Original Message----- From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:26 PM To: Marley, Darlene; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Sqlldr constants and dates w/timestamp Darlene, Did you try: deploydatetime CONSTANT "to_date('04-OCT-2004 14:00:00','dd-MON-yyyy hh24:mi:ss')", You can also try this without the "CONSTANT" word. Should work fine. Good Luck. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- From: Marley, Darlene [mailto:dmarley@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:15 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Sqlldr constants and dates w/timestamp Maybe someone can save my bloody head from beating it against the wall. I'm using sqlldr 8.1.7 and I'm trying to load a file that needs supplemental constant values: OPTIONS(SKIP=3D19) LOAD DATA INFILE 'WCA1MESO.csv' APPEND INTO TABLE erid.loaddiel FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," Optionally enclosed by '"' TRAILING NULLCOLS ( sonde CONSTANT "33214", deploydepth CONSTANT ".64", retrievaldepth CONSTANT ".63", deploydatetime CONSTANT "04-OCT-2004 14:00:00", -- date format DD-MON-YYYY HH24MISS blah, blah,blah I've set my environment variable NLS_DATE_FORMAT to 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24MISS', but it still pukes on deploydatetime with the error "ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire input string" Any ideas? TIA Bloody in FL. I -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l