Re: Reading from an Excel table into an Oracle table or list to use in a query

You can use SQL Load utility or External tables from Oracle.

SQL Load allows you define control file with your CSV fields and delimiter. Then load to table.

HTH
Karth

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> On Mar 3, 2014, at 6:27 PM, William Threlfall <William.Threlfall_at_albertahealthservices.ca> wrote:
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> Hi experts,
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> I just spent 2 hours searching online for a way to do this, without success. Why is this difficult? This was simple to do in FoxPro!
>
> Anyway, I have been given an Excel file containing a list of patient ID’s, and need to extract certain lab results for those specific patients.
> The obvious way to do this would be to read the patient id’s into a list structure (call it PATLIST) and then in the query use WHERE patient_info.pat_id IN PATLIST to filter the results. Alternatively, I can possibly create a table called PATLIST and use WHERE patient_info.pat_id = PATLIST.pat_id to filter the results.
> However, I am stuck because I can’t find any information on how to read an Excel file into an Oracle table or list structure.
> I can export the Excel file into a CSV text file if necessary, but I can’t find a way to read a text file into an Oracle table or list structure either.
>
> Will someone please tell me how to do this simply and easily?
> I am using SQL Developer, connecting remotely to the database. I don’t have access to do anything on the server, and I don’t have any ability to do anything that would require DBA or SysAdmin access.
>
> Cheers, - Bill.
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