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Re: SQL Loader help

From: Stephen Andert <StephenAndert_at_firsthealth.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:19:27 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CE024.20030829101927@fatcity.com>


Rachel,

I do not claim to be a guru, but I do happen to have Jonathan's book here.

The first thing is what field type are you using for this memo field? The book says you should use CHAR for VARCHAR2, CHAR, LONG and other related.

What error are you getting?

Can you post the lines from the ctl?

Is there a chance there are TAB's in the data?

Stephen

>>> wisernet100_at_yahoo.com 08/29/03 09:24AM >>>
I know that there are several sql loader gurus on this list. I'm having
a problem loading data from a third party vendor..... into what is basically a LONG column

The file is ASCII, tab delimited. The specs on the input data say that this particular column is a "memo" field (the originating database is FoxPro.. joy)

I'm trying to load this into a 9.2.0.2 database. And it's barfing. This
is annoying me no end and so I'm asking for help. I don't have Jonathan's book here with me! (that would, of course, be easy)

Rachel



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