hi, Is there a way to load the following records using sqlldr? "jack "King",","LEE" The record should be loaded in the table as : field1 - jack "King", field2 - LEE Control file: LOAD DATA APPEND INTO TABLE testing FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' TRAILING NULLCOLS (a,b) Data file format: <field1>,<field2> thanks. susan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l