That's it. Thanks Ron and everyone else for your help. Dave
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David,
Try removing the word "CONSTANT" from the string.
LOADDATE "TO_DATE('20030626', 'MMDD')",
Ron
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David,
Have you tried removing the " around the TO_DATE call? The " indicate a
character string and Oracle is unable to translate that string into something
acceptable for a DATE datatype.
David Lewandowski wrote:
>
> Thanks Lisa. But regrettably my LOADDATE isn't always SYSDATE. Do
Hi David,
Ron's suggestion worked, I just tried it:
LOAD_DATE "TO_DATE('010103','MMDDYY')"
Give it a try.
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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:24 PM
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Thanks Lisa. But regrettably my LOADDATE isn't always SYSDATE.
Dave,
I believe if you specify in the .cal file:
loaddate "to_date('20030626', 'MMDD')",
That will default the date to what you want. Now if the date is sometimes specified
that's a different story.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
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Thanks Lisa. But regrettably my LOADDATE isn't always SYSDATE. Do you know
the syntax for an arbitrary date?
Dave
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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:09 PM
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Hi David,
Here's one of my control files, it works for me... LOAD_DA
David,
Try removing the word "CONSTANT" from the string.
LOADDATE "TO_DATE('20030626', 'MMDD')",
Ron
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Hi David,
Here's one of my control files, it works for me... LOAD_DATE is indeed
a date field.
OPTIONS (DIRECT=TRUE, PARALLEL=FALSE, BINDSIZE=1
Hi David,
Here's one of my control files, it works for me... LOAD_DATE is indeed a date field.
OPTIONS (DIRECT=TRUE, PARALLEL=FALSE, BINDSIZE=1048576)
UNRECOVERABLE
LOAD DATA
INFILE 'D:\FTPRoot\vegas\ascname.txt'
BADFILE 'D:\data\vegas\log\ascname.bad'
DISCARDFILE 'D:\data\vegas\log\ascname.ds
I can't figure out how to specify a constant date for a column
in a SQL*Loader control file and can't find any examples.
I tried:
LOADDATE CONSTANT "TO_DATE('20030626', 'MMDD')",
but I get this error message in the log file:
ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric w
