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Re: Converting "MM/DD/YYYY" in an inported file to a valid Oracle date.

From: L120bj <l120bj_at_aol.com>
Date: 1998/02/02
Message-ID: <19980202203401.PAA07628@ladder03.news.aol.com>#1/1

>Subject: Re: Converting "MM/DD/YYYY" in an inported file to a valid Oracle
>date.
>From: l120bj_at_aol.com (L120bj)
>Date: 2/2/98 7:05PM GMT
>Message-id: <19980202190500.OAA25924_at_ladder03.news.aol.com>
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>>Subject: Re: Converting "MM/DD/YYYY" in an inported file to a valid Oracle
>>date.
>>From: l120bj_at_aol.com (L120bj)
>>Date: 2/2/98 6:50PM GMT
>>Message-id: <19980202185001.NAA12985_at_ladder02.news.aol.com>
>>
>>>Subject: Converting "MM/DD/YYYY" in an inported file to a valid Oracle
 date.
>>>From: "Rylandda" <custserv_at_bodine-assembly.com>
>>>Date: 2/2/98 1:29PM GMT
>>>Message-id: <6b4i1q$luu_at_usenet41.supernews.com>
>>>
>>>We are interested on knowing how to convert a string character with a
 format
>>>of "MM/DD/YYYY" that is being imported from an external source into a valid
>>>Oracle date field when running SQL*LOADER. Is there a function or a routine
>>>we could use in the control file?
>
>Sorry about my previous message, there is a far simpler means
>e.g.
>DATE_FIELD (1:10) "MM/DD/YYYY"
>
>Apologies
> Rob
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Bad day at the office or what ? There should, of course, be the word DATE, before the "MM/DD/YYYY" format.

Surely I can't have got anything else wrong !   Rob Received on Mon Feb 02 1998 - 00:00:00 CST

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