I am attempting to load a file using SQL*LOADER which contains
accounting information into a table. The file contains receipts
that are itemized by line within the file, so for instance, a receipt
with five items has five lines. What we've been doing in the past
is to include the number of lines and the total dollar amount of the
receipt in each line and just load it with SQL*LOADER, but due to
prgram limitations on this new project, the person creating the
load file cannot only put this information into a footer record at
the end of the file. Has anyone found a clever way of reading the
footer values first and then using them to load into the table, or
does one have to write some sort of PL/SQL procedure which reads
the footer first, then writes a new file containing the lines of the
original record with the footer values appended? I briefly considered
writting a PL/SQL script to load the table but am hesitant because
writing a PL/SQL procedure to read the footer and then insert rows
into the table but get the impression that this way would be much
much slower than using SQL*LOADER. Any suggestions or input would be
appreciated. :-)
Received on Fri Oct 18 2002 - 12:13:00 CDT
