Re: external table

Thank you Billy

vslabs_at_onwe.co.za (Billy Verreynne) wrote in message news:<1a75df45.0309120409.2a2a3226_at_posting.google.com>...
> helpora_at_yahoo.com (Erohsik) wrote
>
> > I am using external tables to load data from a data file to an Oracle
> > tables (instead of using SQLLoader).
 <snipped>
> > Now my request: I need to chang the code so that the log files and the
> > bad files go to a specified
> > directory which I specify in the 'create directory.... (.sql) script.
> >
> > How to specify that ?
>
> Something like:
>
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY csv AS '/csv'
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY log AS '/log'
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY dump AS '/dump'
>
>
> CREATE TABLE foo_external (
> place_name varchar2(100),
> postcode varchar2(4),
> streetcode varchar2(4),
> town_name varchar2(100)
> )
> ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
> (TYPE oracle_loader
> DEFAULT DIRECTORY CSV
> ACCESS PARAMETERS
> (
> RECORDS DELIMITED BY newline
> BADFILE DUMP:'postcodes.bad'
> DISCARDFILE DUMP:'postcodes.dis'
> LOGFILE LOG:'postcodes.log'
> FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
> (
> place_name char(100),
> postcode char(4),
> streetcode char(4),
> town_name char(100)
> )
> )
> LOCATION ('postcodes.csv')
> )
> REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
Received on Thu Sep 18 2003 - 17:14:05 CEST