I was tempted to fall back on my VBA background and give you a bit of code to fix this nasty habit of your users (101201 = 10th Dec 2001 ! how the heck are they allowed to do that ???) Then I realized you're using sqlldr to do the loading....so now you don't have to mess around with Excel. So you can use functions in the control file to convert this data column then... eg.
LOAD DATA INFILE * INTO TABLE DEPT FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' (DEPTNO, DNAME, MESSY_DATE "to_date(:messy_date,'ddmmyy')" ) BEGINDATA 10,Sales,101201 20,Accounting,111201 30,Consulting,121201 40,Finance,131201 OR LOAD DATA INFILE * INTO TABLE DEPT FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' (DEPTNO, DNAME, MESSY_DATE date 'ddmmyy' ) BEGINDATA 10,Sales,101201 20,Accounting,111201 30,Consulting,121201 40,Finance,131201 HTH Robert Chin ----- Original Message ----- > Hi lists, > > I need to load the excel sheet data to oracle tables. A date column is > improperly entered by users. > > In the excel sheet the date column was filled up without using hyphens > or slashes > the data is like this > > todays date: 10th Dec 2001 > (it is supposed to be 10/12/2001 or 10-Dec-2001 etc...) > > But it was entered in the cells as 101201 > When I formatted the data using the excel option cells -> format > > The data it is displaying in a strage format: 1/27/2177 > > All the date values are displayed improperly. > > Does anybody come across such a situation. How to format the date cells > in excelsheet. > (should I change any options for the sheet) > > > Thnx in advance, > > Srinivas -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Robert Chin INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
