10g SQLLoader With Multibyte Characters
May 11, 2011
Here's an odd problem. I'm trying to load German characters positionally (not CSV) using Linux 10g. I don't get this error on Windows or via CSV, but I'm bound to the method and platform.
The problem is simplified thus. I have 2 columns, the 1st varchar2(8) and the 2nd a numeric(3). The error I'm getting is Invalid number only on rows with special characters. Let me demonstrate.
The file has been loaded into Linux and corrected using iconv.
[oracle@basic sqlldr]$ cat jh.txt
ELEKTROM001
ZEIPR�SI002
This is the loader control file
[oracle@basic sqlldr]$ cat jh.ctl
load data
characterset utf8
infile 'jh.txt'
replace into table TEMP1
(
FLD1 POSITION(1:8) CHAR,
FLD2 POSITION(9:11)
)
The 1st rows is accepted, but the second fails in sqlldr with
Record 2: Rejected - Error on table TEMP1, column FLD2.
ORA-01722: invalid number
The logical assumption is that the double width character is not being properly read by sqlldr but I can find no advice on other setting.
My nls parameters look like this.
PARAMETER VALUE
------------------------------ ------------------------------
NLS_LANGUAGE ENGLISH
NLS_TERRITORY UNITED KINGDOM
NLS_CURRENCY #
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY UNITED KINGDOM
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS .,
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE ENGLISH
NLS_CHARACTERSET UTF8
NLS_SORT BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH24.MI.SSXFF
PARAMETER VALUE
------------------------------ ------------------------------
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH24.MI.SSXFF
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH24.MI.SSXFF TZR
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH24.MI.SSXFF TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY ?
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET UTF8
NLS_COMP BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS CHAR
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE
I've tried using other sqlldr options such as LENGTH SYMANTICS and BYTEORDER but with no success.
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I have a situation i can't find an explanation for, here it is:
I have a table, lets say:
table_a
-------------
name
last name
dept
status
notes
And this table has a trigger on insert, which does a lot of validation to the info to change the status field of the new record according to the results of the validation, some of the validations are:
○check for the name existing in a dictionary
○check for the last name existing in a dictionary
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The thing is, if i do an insert on the table via query, like
insert into table_a
(name,last_name,dept,status,notes)
values
('john','smith',1,0,'new');
it takes only 173 ms to do all the validation process, update the status field and insert the record in the table. (the validation process does all the searches via indexes)But if i try this via SQLloader, reading a file with 5000 records, it takes like 40 minutes to validate and insert 149 records (of course i killed it...)i tried loading the data disabling the trigger (to check speed) and i got that it loads like all the records in less than 10 seconds.
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[code]...
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is an example :
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intra_trades
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-------------------------------------------
set pages 0
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