Re[2]: SQL Loader Concatenate date and time

2003-05-31 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, May 29, 2003, 6:00:49 PM, Bob wrote: BM> Thanks for answering my question. I diddnt realise you could BM> querry colums ahead of the current line. As I recall, it took me a long time to realize that too. It may help to realize that everything you type between double-quotes (those

RE: SQL Loader Concatenate date and time

2003-05-30 Thread Bob Metelsky
Hi Jonathan Thanks for answering my question. I diddnt realise you could querry colums ahead of the current line. Ive applied functions (in a ctl file) to the current column, but diddnt realise I could || the next column My working ctl file Thanks again bob LOAD DATA INFILE 'F:\11NETS

Re: SQL Loader Concatenate date and time

2003-05-30 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Hello Bob, My first thought is to try something like: ... log_date CHAR "TO_DATE(:log_date || ' ' || :log_time,'ddMon hh:mi:ss'", log_time FILLER char, ... I may not have the syntax just right, and I can't take time to test it until later this evening (shouldn't be reading ORACLE-L now any

SQL Loader Concatenate date and time

2003-05-30 Thread Bob Metelsky
All Im need to concatenate my log_date and log_time field (the 2 physical records into one logical record). I can find how to do it with a fixed length file but my case is a delimited file. Looking at the docs, it seems the continueif is used for delimited dtaa, I cant seem to get the syn