Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: Help ray with his oracle!! Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:07:32 -0800 Organization: ATS Message-ID: <1078351617.911959@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1421dc84.0403031111.7b0ca28b@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <1421dc84.0403031111.7b0ca28b@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 21 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.misc:136511 Ray Godfrey wrote: > i was wondering how to load a notepad file into a database with the > click of a button on a jsp frontend. the notepad would have a list of > people and their required attributes eg. ('543210', 'MARY', 'Earl', > 'home', 'Place', 'JOSEPH'); There are at least a half-dozen different ways. As you told us almost nothing about the application I can't tell you which is best. In fact, you didn't even tell us the version of Oracle. Myself ... I would use an external table or UTL_FILE but many other approaches are possible. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)