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From: "Bas A. Schulte" <bas@yournews.nl>
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Subject: Re: sqlload, skipping colums?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 17:32:23 +0100
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Thomas,

> sqlldr with versions 8.0 and less cannot do this without a little help.  See
> 
>  http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=387206860
> 
> for a way to do this.

I did find that article before posting. I just couldn't imagine not
being able to do this considering the myriad of options sqlload gives
you (which I painfully studied for more than 3 hours ;)).

Hacking around it isn't a big problem, so I'll wait for 8i ;)

Thanks for the info.