The reason "why sql loader's CONTROL FILE is not working, if that location has space in between"
E.g. - C:practice for sqlloadercontrol1.ctl
But it works if we remove the space in between the path as below:
E.g. - C:practice_for_sqlloadercontrol1.ctl
I'm having a problem with SQL loader and the control file. I want to load a delimited file. The script will eventually be automated where the file name is passed in to the script, it's not a static name.
It's a simple SQL loader Unix script that I have created as follows
Unix file called test_load
# Auto Load
#
#
export data_file=/dev/test_$1$2.csv;
export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/oracle/product/10.2.0;
export ORACLE_SID=XXX;
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin;
sqlldr userid=XXX/XXX data=$data_file
control=/dev/cntrl/test.ctl
errors=99999
bad=/dev/bad/test_$1$2_$$.bad
log=/dev/logs/test_$1$2_$$.log
the top of my control file is as follows
load data
truncate
into table test
fields terminated by "|"
when record_type = 'AA'
(
running at the prompt ./test_load myload 20100319
The following error occurs
SQL*Loader-350: Syntax error at line 5.
Expecting "(", found keyword when.
when record_type = 'AA'
^
I believe the format of my control file is correct but for some reason it won't load.
I had a requirement of loading flatfile into staging table using SQL Loader, One of the columns in the the Flat file is having values FALSE or TRUE and my requirement is that I load 0 for FALSE and 1 for TRUE which can be achieved by simple DECODE function...I did use decode and tried to load several times but did not work.
INFILE 'sql_4ODS.txt'
BADFILE 'SQL_4ODS.badtxt'
APPEND
INTO TABLE members
FIELDS TERMINATED BY "|"
[code]...
I did try putting a trim as well as SUBSTR but did not work....the cloumn just doent get any values in the output (just null or say free space)
I have a flat file (student.dat delimiter %~| ) using control file (student.ctl) through sql loader. Here are the details.
student.dat
student_id, student_firstname, gender, student_lastName, student_newId
101%~|abc%~|F %~|xyz%~|110%~|
Corresponding table
Student (
Student_ID,
Student_FN,
Gender,
Student_LN
)
How do i map student_newId field to student_id field in STUDENT DB table so that new id should be inserted in student_id column. How do i specify the mapping in control file. I dont want to create a new column in student table. In control file i will specify the below, Is this a best approach?. Do we have any othe way?
STUDENT_ID *(:STUDENT_NEWID)*,
STUDENT_FN,
GENDER,
STUDENT_LNAME,
STUDENT_NEWID BOUNDFILLER
Is it possible to use where clause to discard one of the item which is not able to fit into column because of the length constraint.
Example:
1.Remove first digit from the item_ID where ITEM_ID IN (12345)
2.Do not load data WHERE ITEM_ID IN (12345)
I have a csv file extracted from mainframe which has to be loaded into oracle using sqlldr utility.The numbers are in the format +0000003333, -0000003232.44 etc
I have to convert it to 3333 and -3232.44 and insert into the table.
I have used syntax like
Load file....append into table (t_num expression "to_number(':tnum,'99999.999')")
This gives me an invalid number error.
I tried a lot to load data to table from excel(.csv) using sql*loader the oracle version of sql*loader doesn't support the control file created using notepad(.ctl).Though i given a filename with extension as .ctl it seems as a .txt file. Is there any alternate way to create it?
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2) if not then tell me the reason for it....
3) Also tell me is there any restriction on using the file format for a datafile?
My sql loader is returning a code 2 but not creating a bad file for the rejected records. also logs look good.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am loading data using sqlldr command in UNIX to an oracle table and want to concatenate timestamp to a file name in the "create_file_name" column in the code below.
I have the below code within the control file..
LOAD DATA
TRUNCATE
INTO TABLE TABLEA
TRAILING NULLCOLS
(
file_type POSITION(1:5) CHAR,
business_date POSITION(16:23) DATE "YYYYMMDD",
create_file_name "FILE_NAME" EXPRESSION "SELECT TO_CHAR(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(3), 'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS') FROM DUAL")
The load fails with SQL Loader error: "Expecting valid column specification, ",", ")", found keyword EXPRESSION found instead of column. How the timestamp to a filename can be appended?
I am using perl script to dynamically generate the control file.If I have data in the control file as well as in the datafile, how would i write the control file in that case. Is the below one correct?
load data
INFILE '*'
INFILE '/export/home/test/test.csv'
INSERT INTO TABLE EMP fields
terminated by "," optionally enclosed by '"'
trailing nullcols
( empno, empname, sal, deptno )
[code]....
Is there any way that if my control file contains half of the data and my data file contains the other half of the data can i club this data into a logical record in the control file to populate the DB?
My exact 2nd requirement is, my DB contains 5 cols and for 1 col the data is common(countryName) which i have to pass to the control file dynamically and the .csv file contains the data for the other four cols. How could i combine these in the ctrl file and populate the DB?
so if the DB contains CountryName, empid, ename, sal and dept..I will get the CountryName to the ctrl file and csv contains the data for empid, ename, sal and dept. How would i combine these data into a logical record and populate the DB?
I am trying to generate dynamic control file, as the files I want to upload are coming from different source and their name is constantly changing but following a fix pattern and naming convention.
I am able to generate dynamic control file through SQL. But while calling from BATCH file, i am unable to sent the file name as parameter.
All the examples i have searched are for UNIX, how to do it with BATCH File in WINDOWS.
I have a control file like following:
LOAD DATA
INFILE *
INTO TABLE member
REPLACE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
(
control_id,
name,
address
)
problem is that control_id value is not in data file and I have to assign to each row the same value generated from sequence or from unix variable.
For example, after I run sqlldr, I have to have records in the table like following:
control_id name address
---------- ---- -------
1847 Charlie 250 yonge st
1847 Peter 5 Brookbanks dr
1847 Ben 123 King st
.
.
.
How do I do that?
how to create control file and how to load the data through command window in our database using sql * loader.i am having structure in my database and .csv file in my desktop.
View 20 Replies View RelatedMy oracle table having 2 fields.
filed1 VARCHAR(500)
field2 NUMBER.
i load data to this table from a file using sqlldr.
what is the proper data type should i use in control-file for both the fields.? i dont mention any datatye in ctl file which is working fine with given dataset.
Next week I will be getting an input file which will contain over 1000 data columns to be loaded into ORACLE. It's about 6,400 characters in length.
My question is...has ever created a huge ctl file like this to be used for SQLLoader, using so many columns? I will be sending certain columns(data) to certain tables, so it's not just going into 1. It will be about 6 tables.
I am recieving errors when trying to load the control file. The errors are as follows:
SQL*Loader-500 Unable to open file (homework.ctl)
SQL*Loader-553 file not found
SQL*Loader-559 SYstem error: The system cannot find the file specified.
My control file is located directly in the C drive (C:homework.ctl). The control file contains the following
LOAD DATA
INFILE 'c:country.dat'
APPEND INTO TABLE homework
fields terminated by ',' optionally encloded by '"'
(country, month, day)
WHEN (month='April')
The command I am entering is:
sqlldr system/password control=homework.ctl
I've tried c:homework.ctl, 'c:homework.ctl', and placing the file in the BIN folder of Oracle.
I have another interesting SQL Loader issue. I have created 2 prior topics RE: "Trapping SQL Loader summary counts" and "Using Sql Loader issue". This new issue is along the same lines, but unfortunately the same input csv file has a date field that is has a different input format..
The 10G Oracle Table looks like...
---------------------------
CREATE TABLE PTLIVE.MODULE_CSV_LOADS
( MODULE_ID NUMBER (20),
MODULE_TAGNUMBER VARCHAR2(100),
MODULE_SERIAL_NUMBER NUMBER (20,0),
[code]...
My initial control file looks like...
-----------------
OPTIONS (SKIP=1)
load data
infile 'J:GrowerRound_ModulesCrop2011ProcessedBatch_2011Jul12_081326_746563.csv'
BADFILE 'J:GrowerRound_ModulesCrop2011LogsBatch_2011Jul12_081326_746563.bad'
[code]...
The input csv data file (for this example) contains 3 records. The first is a heading record that is skipped. The 2nd record
is correct and the field entitled "GMT Date" contains a value of
"16/05/2011". The 3rd record, however, has a date of "2011/5/18", which get rejected by the above control file, as the output SQL Loader log indicates...
Record 2: Rejected - Error on table PTLIVE.MODULE_CSV_LOADS, column DATEPICKED.
ORA-01861: literal does not match format string
Now we will be receiving literally hundreds of these csv files and in testing I have found that when I open the csv file (the default is Excel), and Excel must alter its display, as all date appear 100% okay. However, upon opening the csv file with Wordpad, I discovered the dates in the same file had these 2 different formats. So the control file was attempting to concat the input csv file "GMT Date" in one format with the input "GMT_TIME" to load the output value into the Oracle table column
"DATEPICKED" ... but different date formats cause some records to be rejected.
It would be super if SQl Loader could use a IF clause or an OR clause to execute loading the date in one or more input formats. We only expect the 2 foramts DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY/MM/DD....however, there could be 6 different combinations in theory.
I thought about writing a Function or Procedure to analyst the input date and output a standard one to load into the Oracle column
I am having query regarding sql loader. my data file is comm(,) seperated and I want to load the whole file in oracle table 'bill_temp' except 1st column data of data file.
e.g.
File name: bill_file.dat
fields seperated by comma ','
values are like
emp_id,emp_name,emp_sal,join_date
oracle table bill_temp having the below column:
emp_name,emp_sal,join_date
Here I want load the emp_name,emp_sal and join_date into oracle table bill_temp.
emp_id should not get loaded into table.
Is there any way to skip the loading of particular column data from data file into table?
The following control file updates multiple rows in database table.
LOAD DATA
INFILE *
replace
INTO TABLE temp_tab
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ","
(Data LOBFILE(CONSTANT cadd_pass.xml) terminated by eof
There are 21 lines in the xml. So 21 rows are updated in table.update only one row?
My Table structure
column1 varchar(10)
column2 Date
Column3 varcahr(2)
Column4 varcahr(2)
By Data file
asds 12/12/2001asas
textsd asds
asds 12/12/2001asas
ramkiy asds
I still want to insert row 2 and row 4 into table by defaulting the date. how can I handle this in control file?
I have a table revenue
create table revenue
(
person varchar2(23),
month varchar2(3),
rev_amt number
)
and i have data in a file like below
Person Jan Feb Mar Apr Mai Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dez
--------------------------------------------------------
Schnyder,345,223,122,345,324,244,123,123,345,121,345,197
Weber,234,234,123,457,456,287,234,123,678,656,341,567
Keller,596,276,347,134,743,545,216,456,124,753,346,456
Meyer,987,345,645,567,834,567,789,234,678,973,456,125
Holzer,509,154,876,347,146,788,174,986,568,246,324,987
Müller,456,125,678,235,878,237,567,237,788,237,324,778
Binggeli,487,347,458,347,235,864,689,235,764,964,624,347
Stoller,596,237,976,876,346,567,126,879,125,568,124,753
Marty,094,234,235,763,054,567,237,457,325,753,577,346
Studer,784,567,235,753,124,575,864,235,753,864,634,678
i want to load it into the table in the following way.
Person Month Revenue
-------------------------
Schnyder Jan 345
Schnyder Feb 223
Schnyder Mar 122
Schnyder Apr 345
Schnyder Mai 324
Schnyder Jun 244
Schnyder Jul 123
Schnyder Aug 123
Schnyder Sep 345
Schnyder Oct 121
Schnyder Nov 345
Schnyder Dez 197
........ ... ...
How to write control file to load this data into the above revenue table.
I have an Excel spreadsheet that just had a format change. The fourth column is new. Order of columns in Excel is:
oldcol1
oldcol2
oldcol3
oldcol4
newcol
oldcol5
Sqlldr script is in order of the .csv file just listed. Oracle table is in order
oldcol1
oldcol2
oldcol3
oldcol4
oldcol5
newcol
When I run the sqlldr script, the information is loaded:
oldcol1
oldcol2
oldcol3
oldcol4
newcol in oldcol5
so that all the information is loaded incorrectly. Out side of having to change the table, is there anything I can do to make it load correctly?
I am trying to import data from below content.
Flat File
PARENTCHILDALIAS
PLAN_PCOTDefaultPlanning Customer
1001_BTPCOTDefaultGeneral Planning Customer
2000_BTPCOTDefaultNational Account Planning Customer
3000_BTPCOTDefaultDistributor Planning Customer
3010_BTPCOTDefaultEducation Planning Customer
3020_BTPCOTDefaultResearch Planning Customer
OPT1_PCOTDefaultOption 1 Planning customer
OPT2_PCOTDefaultOption 2 Planning customer
OPT3_PCOTDefaultOption 3 Planning customer
The problem here is , When you try to import to a table which has same columns . I skipped the first line when loading . The issue here is the second field is getting split in to the two columns . for e.g. :- Default goes to Child and Remaining goes to the Alias.
infarct there is a tab at the end of the each line. How to set the Sql loader settings correctly so that I can populated the end column in CHILD column only.!!!!
OPTIONS ( SKIP=1)
LOAD DATA
INFILE 'FlatFile.txt'
BADFILE ''FlatFile.bad'
DISCARDFILE ''FlatFile.dsc'
INTO TABLE "table"
FIELDS TERMINATED BY X'9'
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY "''" TRAILING NULLCOLS
(PARENT,
CHILD,
ALIAS CONSTANT '')
Load the selected records from the flat file using SQL*Loader.
I have a flat file it's having 100 records, I want to load first 10 records from the file using SQL*LOADER.
what i miss to load date and time from text file to oracle table through sqlloader
this is my data in this path (c:externalmy_data.txt)
7369,SMITH,17-NOV-81,09:14:04,CLERK,20
7499,ALLEN,01-MAY-81,17:06:08,SALESMAN,30
7521,WARD,09-JUN-81,17:06:30,SALESMAN,30
7566,JONES,02-APR-81,09:24:10,MANAGER,20
7654,MARTIN,28-SEP-81,17:24:10,SALESMAN,30
my table in database emp2
create table emp2 (empno number,
ename varchar2(20),
hiredate date,
etime date,
ejob varchar2(20),
deptno number);
the control file code in this path (c:externalctrl.ctl)
load data
infile 'C:externalmy_data.txt'
into table emp2
fields terminated by ','
(empno, ename, hiredate, etime, ejob, deptno)
this is the error :
C:>sqlldr scott/tiger control=C:externalctrl.ctl
SQL*Loader: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Mon May 31 09:45:10 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Commit point reached - logical record count 5
C:>
what is the exact use of "str '<EORD>" statement in control file ?, while populating data from .dat file into database table.
When I am trying with this option, I am able to load a single record into a database table. If I remove this statement form control file, complete records from file get populated into table. I am using Linux server for imp data with sqlloader.Also, Does there any difference to use this statement in control file on Linux server and on AIX server ? Here is the structure of my ctl file.
load data
infile 'data/EZMAIL/CDSWEB.EZMAIL.dat'
*"str '<EORD>
'"*
into table CDSWEB.EZMAIL
fields terminated by '#<EOFD>#'
trailing nullcols (
I'm studying abt SQL*Loader. All I've learn it needs to have:
1. One text input file
2.Control file
3.Bad file...
But I'm confused where to put the input file...where to put the control file in which format and in control file what should I write...
My oracle version is:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Prod
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
CORE 10.2.0.3.0 Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
I am using oracle 10g version 10.2.0.1.0.
Can I use user-defined functions in my sql*loader control file and load in DIRECT path mode?
1)Is there a way to load two tables from two input files in one control file?
I have two control files.
LOAD DATA
INFILE 'C:
ame.txt'
BADFILE 'C:
ame.bad'
DISCARDFILE 'C:
[code]....
Can i load emp_tab and job_table using one control file and two input files name.txt and job.txt?
2)Is there a way to pass the path as a parameter in the control file?
In the job below, when i execute the sqlldr , can I pass C:/job.txt as an input instead of specifying it in control file?