Re: SQL*Loader question

Gerard H. Pille wrote:
>
> In article <4ic0o8$nh9_at_pegasus.rutgers.edu>, Eric G
> (ericg_at_pegasus.rutgers.edu) says...
> !>
> !>I have read the Utilities manual and I can't find the answer.
> !>
> !>I am loading a variable length file with delimiters.
> !>The file has more information than I need to load in my table.
> !>My question is, how do I skip some of the fields from the file.
> !>I know how to do it if it were a fixed length file, just use the
> !positions that you want to use.
> !>
> !>Does anyone out there know how to do this?
> !>
> !>Thanks for your help.
> !>
> !>Sincerely,
> !>
> !>Eric Gottesman
> !>AT&T
> !>ejgottesman_at_attmail.com
>
> SQL*Loader doesn't allow you to skip fields.
>
> A very poor solution might be to overload some fields in the same column.
>
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> Kind reGards
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> Gerard

Why dont you try to use a text processing utility like awk or perl to remove the unnecessary fields and then load.
Removing fields will be trivial task in awk

Regards
Mohan Received on Sun Mar 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CET