Dave, Perhaps you should define the length of the data in the control file so it will not use the default lengths. (DATACALL INTEGER(2) ,QUESTIONID INTEGER(10) ,ORGID INTEGER(10) ,ANSWER01 VARCHAR(4000) ,ANSWER02 VARCHAR(4000) ) Ron >>> davewendelken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 07/22/2004 10:10:58 AM >>> I don't use sqlldr very often and I'm having a problem I don't understand. I'm getting this error: ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested I've slogged thru the online sqlldr manual and the error manual, but I'm not seeing why I'm getting this problem at all. I've stripped out all the fancy stuff I was trying to do, just to get the raw basics to work. But no luck! Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.5.0 Here's a sample from the simple comma-delimited file I'm trying to load: 3,1244,14,R4806W,17 3,1244,15,R6606,26 3,1244,16,R2901E,59 3,1244,17,R4501H,112 3,1244,19,R2516,0 3,1244,20,R6312,75 Here's the test table to load into: SQL> descr ltest Name Type --------------------------- --------------- DATACALL NUMBER(2) QUESTIONID NUMBER(10) ORGID NUMBER(10) ANSWER01 VARCHAR2(4000) ANSWER02 VARCHAR2(4000) Control file I'm using: LOAD DATA INFILE '1244.csv' BADFILE '1244.bad' DISCARDFILE '1244.dsc' APPEND INTO TABLE ltest REPLACE FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' TRAILING NULLCOLS (DATACALL INTEGER(2) ,QUESTIONID INTEGER(10) ,ORGID INTEGER(10) ,ANSWER01 VARCHAR ,ANSWER02 VARCHAR ) Here's the results I get from the log: Table LTEST, loaded from every logical record. Insert option in effect for this table: REPLACE TRAILING NULLCOLS option in effect Column Name Position Len Term Encl Datatype ------------------------------ ---------- ----- ---- ---- --------------------- DATACALL FIRST 2 INTEGER QUESTIONID NEXT 10 INTEGER ORGID NEXT 10 INTEGER ANSWER01 NEXT * VARCHAR ANSWER02 NEXT * VARCHAR Record 1: Rejected - Error on table LTEST. ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested Record 2: Rejected - Error on table LTEST. ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested Record 3: Rejected - Error on table LTEST. ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested Record 4: Rejected - Error on table LTEST. ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested Record 5: Rejected - Error on table LTEST. ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested Record 6: Rejected - Error on table LTEST. ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------