Re: SQL*Loader - what happened?

monicaroman_at_yahoo.com (Monica Roman) wrote:

>Following-up on the message I sent earlier.
>I realized that I need to format the date field, so I loaded:
>
>Load data
>...
>Fields terminated by ','
>(TBLDATE "DD-MM-YYYY HH24:MI:SS",
>TBLPRIORITY... etc.)
>
>But I got an error: SQL*Loader-291: Invalid bind variable MI in SQL
>string for column TBLDATE.
>
>I couldn't find references but one, unanswered, on the group. How is
>this resolved?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Monica

Try to specify that date in your .ctl files like this:

TBLDATE DATE 'dd-mm-yyyy hh24:MI:SS'

(Note single quotes )

With a date field, you should also handle NULLS with a NULLIF statement ...

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