Re: creating tables info. please

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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:43:11 GMT
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"Totti" <saliba.toufic.george_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:daa0d462-d8fd-44bb-9b8d-3b2976c35e34_at_k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi Charles these methods seem very powerful, but i m not sure i know
> how to do them, but i think i am using something 95% similar to the
> second methos you talked about, the 'macro' one.
> i just wrote a VBA, with an insert into formula in Excel, so i
> generate the data in excel, i save the rows in a txt file and from
> there i do a crete table in oracle, and i paste the values i have in
> the txt so the thing i am copying and pasting is kind of this:
> creat table_XXX(
> sal_x varchar2(12),
> sal_prod ........)
> insert into table table_xxx value(....,....,...);
> ............
> ........
> commit;
>
> thats how i know to do it at the present time,
> but since you have something better, i would like you to show me some
> info. on any valuable documentations about it.
> Thanks a lot.

Use sql loader. See the documentation under utlities. Much faster. Also it looks like in your example you are storing numbers as text. Don't do that.
Jim Received on Tue Jan 08 2008 - 06:43:11 CST

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