I have an Oracle8 database which needs to be periodically updated with
records pulled from an ASCII flat file provided by an external source.
I've about gone blind perusing the SQL*Loader documentation, and can
only find ways to append new records. Unfortunately, the file contains
both new records and updates to existing ones. I can of course write
code to parse the data and then query the DB to find out if the record
exists, and then insert or update as appropriate, but my intuition tells
me that there must be a better way. Does anyone have any ideas?
--GDD
Received on Tue Dec 15 1998 - 09:12:32 CST
