Yep, < > is more efficient. Regards, Dimitre Radoulov ----- Original Message ----- From: Khemmanivanh, Somckit To: cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx ; raja4list@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle list Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:04 PM Subject: RE: put the table in upper case Reminds me of the useless use of cat awards by Randal Schwartz, was it? cat test.txt | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" > TEST.txt Can be -- tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" < test.txt > TEST.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Radoulov, Dimitre Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 2:01 AM To: raja4list@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle list Subject: Re: put the table in upper case You can use this command on Unix to translate all lower-case characters to upper-case and then use sqlloader in direct mode :) $ cat test.txt TesT TEST tEst test $ cat test.txt | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" > TEST.txt $ cat TEST.txt TEST TEST TEST TEST HTH, Dimitre Radoulov ----- Original Message ----- From: Jared Still To: raja4list@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle list Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 3:04 AM Subject: Re: put the table in upper case Take a look at this section of the SQL Loader manual. http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/ldr_field_list.htm#sthref1238 Tiny Url: http://tinyurl.com/96xl5 It shows how to apply SQL operaters to a field. It used to be that you could not do that on direct imports. Depending on version, that may have changed. HTH Jared On 11/5/05, raja rao <raja4list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Team, We recieve data from various sources in lower,upper case. We want all the data to be stored in upper case in the table. The whole data will be loaded using sqlloader. Is there any way toload all the data in upper case / any method that makes sure that the table data is always in upper case. I cannot use the update ... set col1=upper(col1), col2=upper(col2) as this would take long time to update the table everytime. Thanks in advance, Raj -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist