RE: SQL*Loader ignoring additional columns when delimited

  • From: John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "'scott.hutchinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <scott.hutchinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:49:56 -0800

Scott,

>this case, I would 
>like SQL*Loader to treat the row as invalid and write it to 
>it's "bad" file.

Since you are on 9.2, have you considered using External files to process
the input and load it? This is a great ETL tool and saves much downstream
processing. Examples for using External files are all over the internet and
at the IOUG repository.

Hth,
John Kanagaraj <><
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