Good catch Raja. Removed the ":" and still got the same error. Any other ideas? Still bloody in FL. -----Original Message----- From: Ganesh Raja [mailto:ganesh.raja@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:19 PM To: Marley, Darlene Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Sqlldr constants and dates w/timestamp Just a Thought here .. U have Got ":" in the constrant but the value uh have said as the NLS_DATE_FORMAT does not havethe ":" in them... :) On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:15:04 -0400, Marley, Darlene <dmarley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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