Server Utilities :: Skip Column While Loading Data Using SQL Loader
Feb 5, 2006
Data
Sl#Emp_noNameAddress
00101Tom1/B-XYZ street
00202Jon1/C-XYZ Street
Employee Datafile
001, 01, Tom, 1/B-XYZ street
002,02,Jon, 1/C-XYZ Street
Above is a sample data file. Now I would like to import the data into an Oracle table called employee using Oracle 9i SQL Loader utility. But the table has only 3 fields (Emp_no,Name & Address), so I would like to skip Sl# while loading data. I do not want to manually modify data file. How should I write .ctl file.
Sample .ctl file.
load data
INFILE 'dataEmployee'
BADFILE 'Employee.bad'
DISCARDFILE 'Employee.dis'
into table Employee
fields terminated by ','
TRAILING NULLCOLS
(Emp_no NULLIF Emp_no = BLANKS,
Name NULLIF Name = BLANKS,
Address NULLIF Address = BLANKS
)
I have to load a fixed width file using sql loader utility. But the records have multiple special characters. writing / modifying the loader utility to load the data.
--Script to create the table create table t1 ( ip1 varchar2(2), ip2 number, ip3 number);
--loader utility LOAD DATA INFILE 'c:inputfile.dat' BADFILE 'c:adfile.bad' REPLACE INTO TABLE t1 FIELDS TERMINATED BY '' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '°' ( ip1POSITION(1:2) CHAR, ip2POSITION(3:17) INTEGER EXTERNAL ":ip2/100", ip3POSITION(18:32) INTEGER EXTERNAL ":ip3/100", )
--sql version i am using SQL*Loader: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Mar 7 18:32:33 2012 Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
In the above mentioned data file, records has multiple special characters like '°','¶' ,'-'. All these special characters have some meaning. eg: '°' specifies the above column needs to be multiplied by -1 '¶' specifies the above column needs to be multiplied by -0.1
what changes need to be made in loader utility for the same? Also, will there be any change in the utility if I am using higher version of oracle?
After exporting some data to excel, I noticed that on one row all the columns shifted over some. So I queried this record in the database and noticed that the ADDRESS field has some unknown characters at the end of it. They are little squares. I think they are TABS.
2630 LINDEN BLVD, APT. #8G(2 squares are in here)
ADDRESS_1 "TRIM(:ADDRESS_1)",
Besides trimming the data, is there some other function I can use to clean up the address further?
I am running Oracle 9 and using sql loader to import text file into table. Can sql loader skips the record which blank line or carriage return? Do I need to set up with options?
I tried to find about sql loader, tried googling and ended up with Orafaq .
1) Is there a way that you can skip few records in the control file.
Assume the control file is loading a file with three records.
CREATE TABLE emp_tab ( Emp_id NUMBER(15,0), Name CHAR(25), Age NUMBER(15,0) );
The text file is like this name.txt
1;sam;19; 2;jai;22; ;pam;33;
LOAD DATA INFILE 'C: ame.txt' BADFILE 'C: ame.bad' DISCARDFILE 'C: ame.dsc' APPEND INTO emp_tab fields terminated by ";" TRAILING NULLCOLS ( Emp_id , name, age)
I want to skip the record 3 in the text file as it has no id, is there a way to do this.Can we skip a record based on a condition?
2) What needs to be included in the control file in order to get a return code?
3) Assume the return code = 0 for success and return code = 1 for failure, what will be the return code if 60 out 100 records are loaded and 40 are discarded and written to .bad file?
4) SQL loader does a auto commit, meaning the moment you run the control file, the records are inserted and commited, is there a way to avoid it ?
I have data file emp.dat in that i have 10000 records. My requirement is i want to skip last 100 records when i am loading it into EMP table using SQL *LODER.
I am trying to load multiple XML files into Oracle DB using SQL Loader. The filenames of the XML files starts with a description and then numbers, where the numbers are different each time.
Here's my CTL file:
LOAD DATA INFILE * INTO TABLE XML_TABLE TRUNCATE xmltype(XML_TABLE) FIELDS (
[code]....
I don't want to keep having to go into the ctl file and change the numbers of the xml file. Is there a way where I could just load all .xml files that begins with 'description'? Like maybe
I have the following table intra_trades with t_id as the primary key. There is a trigger on that table that gets the next sequence and inserts it into the t_id column for every insert. I need to load data into that table using SqlLoader as chunks of 3000 rows and return the t_id back the script that Sqlload the data so that it can use that t_id's for the next process in the script.
The problem is that the only unique key on that table is the t_id which has a sequence on it and it is the pk. There can be duplicate rows in that table to meet the business needs for the company. So it is hard to associate the rest of the data in a row with t_id. The only thing I can think of is return the t_ids in the order it inserted so if the script keeps the order of rows in the memory it can associate the tid with the rest of the intra_trades info.How can I make the sqlloader return an array of t_ids that inserted? I need to return the t_ids's in the order it inserted so that the script can associate the t_id with the rest of the rest of the data in a row.
We completed creating a replicate of dB_01 to dB_02 (housed in a single DEV server). But dB_02 had only table structures (no records). What would be our fastest option (tools, commands, etc.) to load more than a thousand new records for each of the 20 tables of dB_02?
I'm not sure if this is so much a SQL Loader problem as it is a database understanding problem, but here it is. I am having trouble loading data into a table (using SQL Loader) due to the fact that I am trying to load data row by row, into corresponding columns.
TestFile.csv
testvalue1, 123445 testvalue2, test testvalue3, 455321 testvalue4, 65742 testvalue5, 5719
So, using the above data, I am trying to load the value for 'testvalue1' into a column defined as 'testvalue1'; the value for 'testvalue2' into a column defined as 'testvalue2' and so on. From my understanding, SQL loader loads by column not by row, so I am not even sure if this is possible.
How to load the CLOB data into table..in the attached file 18 column has clob data it's appear like new line..Using external table how to load. i tried it's not working..
SQL> desc stg_query_overflow Name Null? Type ----------------------------------------- -------- ---------------------------- HOSTNAME VARCHAR2(50) NPSID NUMBER NPSINSTANCEID NUMBER OPID NUMBER
[code]....
Here's my controlfile:
load data infile '/u01/tony/server_name/query_overflow.dat' badfile '/opt/oracle/tony/sql_dir/bad/server_name_query_overflow.bad' discardfile '/opt/oracle/tony/sql_dir/discard/server_name_query_overflow.dsc' append into table stg_query_overflow
[code]....
Here's a sample of data that I can't load into the table via sqlldr:
Record 272: Rejected - Error on table STG_QUERY_OVERFLOW, column NPSID. ORA-01722: invalid number Record 273: Rejected - Error on table STG_QUERY_OVERFLOW, column NPSID. ORA-01722: invalid number
As you can see, sqlldr is interpreting this vertical sql code as the npsid column, when in fact it is the querytext column. How can I insert each record when some of my data is in this vertical format?
We load large amount of data into multiple tables using sqlldr. Amount of data that we need to load varies according to the situation. We want to estimate the tablespace usage growth due to this data load, so we can verify/extend the tablespaces before the data load. Though, setting to autoextend will work in this case, We want to avoid extending the tablespace during sqlldr executing due to performance.
Our initial attempt was to note the tablespace size before and after executing the sqlldr and use the delta. But this delta was not consistent in different environments for the same amount of data. Different environments mean different oracle servers, different existing sizes of tablespaces, One data file Vs multiple data files etc.
How do we reliably estimate how much tablespace we need for the given amount of data?
My requirement is to load the data from feed file into two tables based on the value of a column in feed file.
say column in feed file is "Activity_Value" . If the Activity_value is 10, the data from feed file should be loaded into Table A and If the Activity Value is 20 the data from feed file should be loaded into Table B.
While importing dump to the new database, error occurred. Below are the errors -
ORA-02374: conversion error loading table "INS"."GENMST_FINANCIER_BRANCH" ORA-12899: value too large for column TXT_IFSC_CODE (actual: 19, maximum: 15) ORA-02372: data for row: TXT_IFSC_CODE : 0X'4644524C30303031353739A0A0A0A0' [code]...
I would like to know, why such error occurred during the import.
CONTROL FILE: LOAD DATA INFILE 'sample.txt' INSERT INTO TABLE TEST_RECORDS WHEN REC_TYPE_HDR='HDR' FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|' TRAILING NULLCOLS ( [code]....
The value 603 should have loaded into TRAN_TYPE field or column, instead it loaded into the next field or column LINE_COMP.
I want to insert calculated data while loading the data from sql loader.
eg let say column INTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID,WAIT_TIME,MESSAGE_GUID,TRS_SIZE,RETURN_MESSAGE_GUID are null in input file then i want to populate column DEV_FLAG as 'U' ELSE 'D'
My control file looks like below but doesn't have DEV_FLAG.
load data BADFILE '/backup/temp/rajesh/RIO/BadFiles/FILENAME' append into table TEMP_rio_RESP_TIME_LND TRAILING NULLCOLS ( INSTALLATION_ID CHAR TERMINATED BY "|" OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"', TRANSACTION_ID CHAR
I successfully loaded a record into table with BFILE data type. However I don't understand how to verify if I did this correctly. I am also suspicious of the value FSSLPB//I. FSSLPB is the directory object name. When I delete the record from the table the BFILE column value defaults to (null) so it seems the table is initialized for accepting bfiles.
I am trying to:
1. Load an external LOB into a staging table using SQLLDR, then 2. Using PL/SQL insert the ext LOB into a BLOB column from the staging table to an end user table (or application table).
I am overwhelmed with reading docs and not getting the complete picture for different approaches to loading into Oracle.
I want to load data from a file using sqlldr.I have a table commissions ( technician_id char(5) , tech_name char(30) , Comm_rcd_date DATE , Comm_Paid_date DATE , comm_amt number(10,2) )
my file is 00001,TIMOTHY TROENDLY,2011-03-04T01:45:12+0006,2011-03-04T01:45:12+0007,123.56 00002,KENNETH KLEMENZ,2011-03-04T01:45:12+0006,2011-03-04T01:45:12+0009,123.56 00003,SHUNDAR ARDERY,2011-03-04T01:45:12+0006,2011-03-04T01:45:12+0005,123.56 write a ctl file to load this data.
I want to populate totale number of record in the file. Usually i get 10000 records per file and i load them using sql loader.I want to also insert the number of records in file while loading the data in table.
How can i achive it.
structure of control file is
load data BADFILE '/backup/temp/rajesh/RIO/BadFiles/FILENAME' append into table ERS_RIO_SRC TRAILING NULLCOLS ( INSTALLATION_ID CHAR
