Oracle-L: RE: info on SQL Loader?

From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:19:28 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CB8D0.20030819091928@fatcity.com>

Maryann

If you just need to know a little to get by, go to http://metalink.oracle.com, click on documentation and locate the Utilities manual. If you think you will be using SQL*Loader quite a bit, go ahead and purchase Oracle SQL*Loader The Definitive Guide by Jonathan Gennick and Sanjay Mishra.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:09 PM
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Does anyone happen to know of any links/info etc on the SQL loader starting from the basics?

thanks,
maa

load data

replace

preserve blanks
into table working_asc

     (
       TRAN                        position(1:1)    char ,
       SPECIALTY_CODE              position(3:7)    char ,
       SUFFIX                      position(8:8)    char ,
       DESCRIPTION                 position(9:28)   char ,
       EXPIRED_IND                 constant "N"
     )

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