RE: Constant Date in SQL*Loader Control File

From: Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:53:21 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.005BA9B5.20030626114015@fatcity.com>

Dave,

I believe if you specify in the .cal file:

loaddate "to_date('20030626', 'YYYYMMDD')",

That will default the date to what you want. Now if the date is sometimes specified that's a different story.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Thanks Lisa. But regrettably my LOADDATE isn't always SYSDATE. Do you know

the syntax for an arbitrary date?

Dave

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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:09 PM
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Hi David,

Here's one of my control files, it works for me... LOAD_DATE is indeed a date field.

OPTIONS (DIRECT=TRUE, PARALLEL=FALSE, BINDSIZE=1048576) UNRECOVERABLE
LOAD DATA
INFILE 'D:\FTPRoot\vegas\ascname.txt'
BADFILE 'D:\data\vegas\log\ascname.bad'
DISCARDFILE 'D:\data\vegas\log\ascname.dsc' TRUNCATE
INTO TABLE ASCNAME_RAW
(

ID                      RECNUM,
AN_SITE                 POSITION(1:2) CHAR 
                        NULLIF AN_SITE=BLANKS,                         
AN_ASSOC_NO             POSITION(3:6) CHAR 
                        NULLIF AN_ASSOC_NO=BLANKS,                 
AN_ASSOC_NAME           POSITION(7:36) CHAR    
                        NULLIF AN_ASSOC_NAME=BLANKS,            
AN_ASSOC_LEGAL_NAME     POSITION(37:80) CHAR 
                        NULLIF AN_ASSOC_LEGAL_NAME=BLANKS,

LOAD_DATE               SYSDATE

)

Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Monkey
Fairfield Resorts, Inc.
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA 33063
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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:40 PM
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I can't figure out how to specify a constant date for a column in a SQL*Loader control file and can't find any examples.

I tried:
LOADDATE CONSTANT "TO_DATE('20030626', 'YYYYMMDD')", but I get this error message in the log file: ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected

Can anyone tell me the correct syntax?

David Lewandowski
Focused Health Solutions
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