Chaim,
If on the other hand the BLANK will not work properly on a numeric filed that is to
be used in calculations. In that case you might want to have a 0(zero) loaded rather
than a null,blank. Then you could use the NVL clause in your controll statement where
the field type is numeric.
ROR mª¿ªm
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Chaim,
Check out the sqlldr case studies on OTN. Ross has the right idea with
the NULLIF. Here's a general description from OTN:
Loading All-Blank Fields
Totally blank fields for numeric or DATE fields cause the record to be
rejected. To load one of these fields as null, use the NULLIF clause
with the BLANKS keyword, as described in Comparing Fields to BLANKS.
Case 6: Loading Using the Direct Path Load Method provides examples of
how to load all-blank fields as null with the NULLIF clause.
If an all-blank CHAR field is surrounded by enclosure delimiters, then
the blanks within the enclosures are loaded. Otherwise, the field is
loaded as null. More details on whitespace are presented in Trimming
Blanks and Tabs and in Preserving Whitespace.
Hope this helps.
David A. Barbour
Oracle DBA, OCP
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> Maybe some could help me.
> I'm having trouble trying to load a csv file with sqlldr. The destination table
> has char columns defined as not null and the csv file has missing data for these
> columns. (These columns will contain blanks in the database).
>
> Sqlldr wants to set the missing fields to null, which results in record
> rejected errors. Is there a way around this. I would be happy if I could insert
> blanks or insert any other marker-value into the field like '***'..
> The input file lines looks something like (01110,,,,1,1,31460)
> Thanks
> Chaim
>
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