Quoting Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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. > Why doesn't "optionally enclosed by..." work for you? -- regards Wolfgang Breitling Oracle 7,8,8i,9i OCP DBA Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l