Re: SQL-Loader

In article <Sep29.172621.68343_at_yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> ciuffoli_at_CS.ColoState.EDU (carlos edis ciuffoli) writes:
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>Have any one loaded negative integers from a file using SQl-loader before ?
>I have looked in the manual (SQL loader) and it does not talk much about
>negative integers. I have defined this field as :
>
>..
>..
>I can't see anything wrong with the way I have things defined. However, I never have worked with this type of data.
>
>I appreciate any help, thanks.

I have recently tried to do the same thing with similar data. I had no luck and had to load the data as positive values, then run a SQL*Plus script to multiply all of the values by -1. This obviously will not work unless all of the values will be negative.

I would be interested to hear from anyone who has found a better solution.

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