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Re: SQL*Loader And Unique Sequence Numbers

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 20:12:50 +0800
Message-ID: <3AA77742.2E86@yahoo.com>

Nick wrote:
>
> Hi All.
>
> I am in the process of creating a marketing database app which will
> eventually 'load' (variable-length) customer data from numerous excel/csv
> files.
>
> For this, I think I need to create a control file that sets a column (in
> this case 'CUSTOMER_CODE') to a unique SEQUENCE number.
>
> Could someone please suggest how this is achieved?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Nick.

See Sybrand's post, or check out the SEQ / MAX keyword in the sqlloader control file.

HTH

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