RE: SQL*Loader Date error (ORA-01858)

  • From: "Ruth Gramolini" <rgramolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <JHostetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 15:10:17 -0500

RE: SQL*Loader Date error (ORA-01858)If you check it out, the timestamp is
not even a date field.  It is its own type of data.

Ruth
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Hostetter, Jay M
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:45 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: SQL*Loader Date error (ORA-01858)


Madhavi,

  I wonder if sql*loader is having trouble with the column name TIMESTAMP?
Could you test it with a different column name?
  Also, if the datatype of the TIMESTAMP column is TIMESTAMP, then you
should try TO_TIMESTAMP instead of TO_DATE.  The implicit conversion could
be an issue.

Jay



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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jim Silverman
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:32 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: SQL*Loader Date error (ORA-01858)


This may be a silly question, but are you sure that the column names in the
controlfile correspond properly to the columns in your table
RE_STATS_STAGING?  In particular, are you sure that the datatypes of the
input data (including the timestamp constant) are compatible with the
datatypes in the table definition?

=====================================
Jim Silverman
Senior Systems Database Administrator
Solucient, LLC
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    From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Madhavi Kanugo
    Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:20 PM
    To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
    Subject: SQL*Loader Date error (ORA-01858)

    Hello  All,

    I'm trying to load data using SQL Loader and ran into the ORA-01858: a
non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected  error.

    Below is my control file. As you can see, the timestamp is a constant
field and I am loading its value from the filename of the data files. I am
executing the sql loader from a shell script and creating the control file
on the fly. The filename is in the form of: 20051206130101.txt  So
basically, the shell script replaces the when_changed value with
20051206130101.

    I created a temp table with just a date field and tried to insert a
value into it. Insert into temp values
(to_date('20051207160752','YYYYMMDDHH24MISS')); and there is no error and
date conversion is implict.

    But SQLLOADER is erring out on ORA-01858.

    LOAD DATA

    INFILE FILENAME

    APPEND

    INTO TABLE RE_STATS_STAGING

    FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'

        TRAILING NULLCOLS

    (

      RE_NAME,

      TG_TYPE,

      TRUNKGROUP,

      CONNECTS,

      HANGUPS,

      DECLINES,

                LOOPS,

                SECONDS,

                CC_CONNECTED,

                CC_SETUP,

                TIMESTAMP CONSTANT
"to_date('_when_changed_','YYYYMMDDHH24MISS')"

            )

    Any ideas on where I am going wrong? Any thoughts or help will be
appreciated.



    Thanks in advance,

    Madhavi








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