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Re: ORA-01722 during SQL Loader load - Help!

From: Ron Reidy <rereidy_at_indra.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 15:53:48 -0600
Message-ID: <3BD1F26C.211ACF14@indra.com>


Dodger wrote:
>
> After a fresh install of Personal Oracle 7.3.4 on a Win95 machine, and fresh
> creation of the database, upon attempting to load tables with SQL Loader,
> every record in every table which contains a decimal number is rejected with
> ORA-01722. Records without decimal numbers load correctly.
>
> Many other previously installed V7.3.4 PCs with the same database load the
> same CTL files with no problems. It should be noted that we are installing a
> completely new version of our associated application on a clean PC, and I
> suspect I may have missed setting up something in either INITORCL.ORA or the
> registry?
>
> On the failing system, NLS_LANG = "AMERICAN"
>
> Any assistance would be gratefully accepted.
>
> Scott Morrow

According to the error manual, this error only occurs if a character is not a "valid numeric literal". So, what does your control file look like? What does your table look like?

-- 
Ron Reidy
Oracle DBA
Reidy Consulting, L.L.C.
Received on Sat Oct 20 2001 - 16:53:48 CDT

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