Re: batch loading clobs

Rachel Pevtzow wrote:

> i currently have a few (non-oracle) databases containing personal papers of
> wellington, mountbatten, etc. i'm thinking about moving it into oracle, but
> i'm worried about how to get the data in. the limit on character fields in
> the current database system is 65000 characters, and we've run into that a
> number of times. i've used sqloader to get data into oracle databases in
> the past, but i've never worked with clobs before.
>
> i can output the data into csv (one/database), but is there any way to batch
> load them into oracle? as far as i can make out, it doesn't sound possible
> using sqldr. or am i mistaken?
>
> any advice would be appreciated!

Did you have to post this to every usenet group you could spell? One group is enough.

But to answer your question. Use the DBMS_LOB built-in package: The web page is incomplete but the demos for what you want are not. http://www.psoug.org/reference/dbms_lob.html

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