Re: SQLLDR Question

    Thank you to everyone who responded to my request. I guess it's just a limitation of sqlldr that it can't handle this without modifying the data. Unfortunately, I can't have the source change their download, so I have to deal with the data as I get it.

    I did come up with a way to get around the problem. I created a text field for the time and created an on-insert trigger that appends the time to the date field and puts it back into the date field. That works at the minimal cost of a few extra bytes per record and a small amount of extra processing time. Here is the trigger that I came up with:

TRIGGER rit_cyber_hist_i
before insert on rit_cyber_hist
for each row
begin

   :new.trans_date := to_date(to_char(:new.trans_date,'mm/dd/yy ') || :new.time_char,'mm/dd/yy hh24:mi');
end;

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 23 May 2001 22:41
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>
> I am trying to load a file that has the fields comma-delimited,
> variable length. A sample line from the file looks like this:
>
> 503,414081660,Success,Auth,AH9042,z,4555,-,-,-,0,05/01/01,14:21
>
> The problem I am having is putting the date and time together. The
> control file looks like this:
>
> load data
> infile 'cyber_real.dat'
> append
> into table rit_cyber_hist
> when order_id <> 'Order ID' and order_id <> ''
> fields terminated by ','
> (order_id,
> trans_nbr,
> cyber_status,
> trans_type,
> auth_code,
> avs_code,
> trans_amt,
> cic_resp,
> po_nbr,
> ship_to_zip,
> tax_amt,
> trans_date date(14) "mm/dd/yy,hh:mi")
>
> It ignores the time portion of the file, I presume because it has a
> comma before it and it assumes that it is a different field. I can't
> figure out any way to get this loaded with the trans_date field
> containing both the date and time.
>
> This is on Oracle 8.1.6.0 on Sun Solaris.
>
> Any suggestions? Thank you.
>
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> Scott Canaan (srcdco_at_rit.edu)
> (716) 475-7886
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"Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it" -
Tom Lehrer


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