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sqlldr and To_date function not working [message #255989]

Thu, 02 August 2007 12:35

Deano252
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Registered: August 2007
Location: Westerly, RI

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Hi All,

I have an interesting problem. I need to load a bunch of legacy data into oracle. The problem I'm faced with is even if I have the correct date mask specified the data does not get loaded.

I have pasted my control file below

LOAD DATA
INFILE 'C:\legacyRM\migrate.txt'
BADFILE 'C:\legacyRM\migrate.BAD'
DISCARDFILE 'C:\legacyRM\migrate.DIS'
APPEND
INTO TABLE legacyRM
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ' '
TRAILING NULLCOLS
(name,
study_date "to_date (:study_date, 'mm/dd/yyyy hh:mi:ss am')",
dob "to_date (:dob, 'mm/dd/yyyy')",
path)

The bold part is the mask I changed

my tab delimited file that I'm using to load this data has the following in the corresponding study_date field

Name 9/26/1999 4/8/2002 9:41:20 AM Path
Name 1/31/2005 6/27/2005 12:00:23 PM Path

and the bold section is the date that is relevant to the control file.

My to_date function looks correct and if I go into my tab delimited file and edit out the time from the study date keeping only the MM/DD/YYYY it will load.

I'm kind of baffled Confused

Any help is appreciated..
Thanks,
Deano

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Re: sqlldr and To_date function not working [message #255990 is a reply to message #255989]

Thu, 02 August 2007 12:43

DreamzZ
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http://www.orafaq.com/forum/m/253790/105911/?srch=SQLLDR#msg_253790

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Re: sqlldr and To_date function not working [message #255991 is a reply to message #255989]

Thu, 02 August 2007 12:43

Michel Cadot
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Quote:

the bold section is the date that is relevant to the control file.

No.
study_date in the second field that is the one WITHOUT time.
The third field (the one in bold) is for dob which does not care about time.

Regards
Michel

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Re: sqlldr and To_date function not working [message #255997 is a reply to message #255991]

Thu, 02 August 2007 12:55

Deano252
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Registered: August 2007
Location: Westerly, RI

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Ok thats working now. Man I should have saw that. It's been a long day

Thanks,
Deano

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