Re: how to load data from Excel sheet into Oracle tables using SQL*LOADER

  • From: "Dennis Williams" <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:46:05 -0500

I agree with Stephen's recommendation to save the Excel spreadsheet to a CSV
file.
One problem I have encountered is that Microsoft will enclose a field in
delimiters when you "need" it. That means that for a given field, sometimes
it is enclosed in delimiters and sometimes not. Such inconsistency is hard
for SQL*Loader to deal with. I don't have a solution for this one, just
pointing out a problem that you may or may not encounter.

Dennis Williams

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