Re: External Table Question

From: patrick <pgovern_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:33:02 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <7a740165-3f50-4ae6-bd95-57ceae04f4f1@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com>


On Jan 8, 8:15 pm, "ame..._at_iwc.net" <ame..._at_iwc.net> wrote:
> I love these external tables.  It really gets rid of the old
> UTL_FILE.GET_LINE.
>
> Anyhow, is there a way to create an external table where the filename
> is dynamic?  Basically the filename changes a couple of times during
> the process.......
>
> Not sure if this can be done short of re-creating the table, but I
> thought I'd ask.....
>
> Regards & Thanks!

Try     ALTER <table>
        LOCATION ('<file1>', '<file2>')
Received on Wed Jan 09 2008 - 10:33:02 CST

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