Re: Stupid SQL*Loader tricks

[Quoted] Try define the INFILE with a dot at the end. like this '/foo/bar/up/detail_xx.'

[Quoted] This is a trick that I have used in the PC environment to do such things as save a file without extension in notepad. Who knows it might work in your environment.

Shaun

Steve Emmett wrote:
>
> Is there any way to overcome SQL*Loader's need to append a .dat to a file defined in INFILE?
>
> As an example, I have a multitude of files of the form detail_xx (WITHOUT any .extension).
> In my control file I define INFILE = '/foo/bar/up/detail_xx'. When I invoke sqlload, I get
> an error that there is no file of that name (detail_xx). But, when I append .dat on the end
> of the detail_xx datafile, sqlload recognizes the INFILE definition.
>
> I don't want to append a .dat to every file I need to load just to make sqlload happy - is
> there anyway to force sqlload to recognize EXACTLY the INFILE definition?
>
> TIA
>
> Steve
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Received on Thu Feb 06 1997 - 00:00:00 CET