Re: Oracle External Table / DAT file data problem
- From: Kim Berg Hansen <kibeha@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Fergal Taheny <ftaheny@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:43:59 +0100
True, SQLLOADER has syntax for such manipulations - WHEN, NULLIF, DEFAULTIF:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16655_01/server.121/e17639/ldr_field_list.htm#SUTIL1202
And apparently external tables also have at least NULLIF (even though
external tables do have less such flexibility than sqlloader):
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16655_01/server.121/e17639/et_params.htm#SUTIL4224
But that seems to be a 12c addition to external tables - at least I can't
find it in 11.2 docs.
And OP needs a solution that works in version 9.2, alas ;-)
Regards
Kim Berg Hansen
http://dspsd.blogspot.com
kibeha@xxxxxxxxx
@kibeha
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Fergal Taheny <ftaheny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> This is taken from an 11g sqlloader control file. Haven't tried this with
> an external table but I think it should work:
>
> APPLICATION_DATE POSITION (203:210) DATE(8) "YYYYMMDD" nullif
> application_date = '00000000'
>
> Regards,
> Fergal
>
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