Re: Importing TAB-delimited data

You can also put TERMINATED BY ' ' in your sql*loader control file where
you type a TAB inbetween the quotes - although the CHR(9) is neater.

• Dc.

NetComrade wrote:

> Any advice on how I can import TAB delimited file into Oracle?
> I cannot use DELIMITED BY WHITESPACE b/c
>
> If TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE is specified, data is read until the first
> occurrence of a whitespace character (space, tab, newline). Then the
> current position is advanced until no more adjacent whitespace
> characters are found. This allows field values to be delimited by
> varying amounts of whitespace
>
> but my street column will surely have whitespaces
>
> I tried doing this thru Access (it has the Tab-delimited feature), but
> got ODBC call failed (maybe b/c it's too large or something, its like
> 200K records)
>
> Thanx.
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Received on Wed Dec 15 1999 - 14:36:07 CST