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10 Oracle SQLLDR Command Examples

(Oracle SQL*Loader Tutorial)
by R A M E S H N A T A R A J A N
on J U N E 2 5 , 2 0 1 2

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If you are using Oracle database, at some point you might have to deal
with uploading data to the tables from a text file.

This article provides 10 practical examples on how to upload data from a

flat file to Oracle tables.

Input data file for SQL*Loader

This is the input text file that contains the data that needs to be loaded
into an oracle table. Each and every records needs to be in a separate line,
and the column values should be delimited by some common delimiter
character. For some of the examples mentioned below, well use the
following employee.txt file to upload the data to the employee table.

$ cat employee.txt

100,Thomas,Sales,5000

200,Jason,Technology,5500

300,Mayla,Technology,7000

400,Nisha,Marketing,9500

500,Randy,Technology,6000

501,Ritu,Accounting,5400
SQL*Loader Control File
This contains the instructions to the sqlldr utility. This tells sqlldr the
location of the input file, the format of the input file, and other optional
meta data information required by the sqlldr to upload the data into oracle
tables.

$ cat example1.ctl
load data

infile '/home/ramesh/employee.txt'

into table employee

fields terminated by ","

( id, name, dept, salary )

The above control file indicates the following:

infile Indicates the location of the input data file

into table Indicates the table name where this data should be inserted
fields terminated by Indicates the delimiter that is used in the input
file to separate the fields
( id, name, dept, salary ) Lists the name of the column names in the
table into which the data should be uploaded

1. Basic Upload Example Using SQL*Loader

First, create the employee table as shown below.

SQL> create table employee

id integer,

name varchar2(10),

dept varchar2(15),
salary integer,

hiredon date

Next create the control file that explains what needs to be upload and
where.

$ cat sqlldr-add-new.ctl

load data

infile '/home/ramesh/employee.txt'

into table employee

fields terminated by ","

( id, name, dept, salary )

Note: If you have the values inside the data file enclosed with double quote,
use this in your control file: fields terminated by , optionally enclosed by


Note: If you dont have the table created, youll get the following error
message:

SQL*Loader-941: Error during describe of table EMPLOYEE

ORA-04043: object EMPLOYEE does not exist

You can pass the userid and password to the sqlldr command using any
one of the following format. As you see below, both of these will prompt
you for control file location, as it was not given in the command line.

$ sqlldr scott/tiger

(or)

$ sqlldr userid=scott/tiger

control =

SQL*Loader-287: No control file name specified.

Execute the sqlldr command to upload these new record to the empty
table by specifying both uid/pwd and the control file location as shown
below.

$ sqlldr scott/tiger control=/home/ramesh/sqlldr-add-new.ctl

Commit point reached - logical record count 5

Verify the the records are created in the database

SQL> select * from employee;

ID NAME DEPT SALARY HIREDON

---------- ---------- --------------- ---------- -------

100 Thomas Sales 5000

200 Jason Technology 5500

300 Mayla Technology 7000

400 Nisha Marketing 9500

500 Randy Technology 6000

This will create the output log file in the same name as the data file, but
with the .log extension (instead of .ctl). Partial output shown below.
 $ cat sqlldr-add-new.log

Control File: /home/ramesh/sqlldr-add-new.ctl

Data File: /home/ramesh/employee.txt

Table EMPLOYEE:
5 Rows successfully loaded.

0 Rows not loaded due to data errors.

0 Rows not loaded because all WHEN clauses were failed.

0 Rows not loaded because all fields were null.

Elapsed time was: 00:00:00.04

CPU time was: 00:00:00.00

If you are new to Oracle database, and like to install it, follow this Oracle
11g installation guide.

2. Inserting Additional Records

Let us say you want to add two new employees to the employee table from
the following newemployee.txt file.

$ vi newemployee.txt

600,Ritu,Accounting,5400
700,Jessica,Marketing,7800

If you create a similar control file like the previous example, you might get
the following error message.

$ sqlldr scott/tiger control=/home/ramesh/sqlldr-add-more.ctl

SQL*Loader-601: For INSERT option, table must be empty. Error on table EMPLOYEE

The above indicates that the table should be empty before you can upload
data using sql*loader.

If you like to insert more data to the tables without having to delete the
existing rows, use the append command as shown in the following control
file.

$ vi sqlldr-append-more.ctl

load data
infile '/home/ramesh/newemployee.txt'

append
into table employee

fields terminated by ","

( id, name, dept, salary )

Now, if you do sqlldr this will append the data.

 $ sqlldr scott/tiger control=/home/ramesh/sqlldr-append-more.ctl
Commit point reached - logical record count 2

Verify that the records are appended successfully

SQL> select * from employee;

ID NAME DEPT SALARY HIREDON

---------- ---------- --------------- ---------- -------

100 Thomas Sales 5000

200 Jason Technology 5500

300 Mayla Technology 7000

400 Nisha Marketing 9500

500 Randy Technology 6000

600 Ritu Accounting 5400

700 Jessica Marketing 7800

3. Data inside the Control File using BEGINDATA

You can also specify the data directly inside the control file itself using
BEGINDATA keyword. i.e Anything that comes after BEGINDATA will be
treated as data to be uploaded to the table as shown below.

$ cat sqlldr-add-new-with-data.ctl
load data

infile *
into table employee

fields terminated by ","

( id, name, dept, salary )

begindata
100,Thomas,Sales,5000

200,Jason,Technology,5500
300,Mayla,Technology,7000

400,Nisha,Marketing,9500
500,Randy,Technology,6000

Note: The infile will say * in this case, as there is no input data file name
for this example.

Execute sqlldr to upload the data from the control file.

$ sqlldr scott/tiger control=/home/ramesh/sqlldr-add-new-with-data.ctl

4. Date format and Different Delimiter

This example shows how to specify a date format in the control file and
how to handle different delimiters in a data file
The following example has different delimiters ($ after name, ^ after
department).

$ cat employee-date.txt
100,Thomas$Sales^5000,31-JAN-2008

200,Jason$Technology^5500,01-Feb-2005
300,Mayla$Technology^7000,10-Aug-2000

400,Nisha$Marketing^9500,12-Dec-2011
500,Randy$Technology^6000,01-JAN-2007

Create the following control file and indicate the field delimiters for each
and every field using terminated by as shown below.

$ cat sqlldr-date.ctl

load data
infile '/home/ramesh/employee-date.txt'

into table employee

fields terminated by ","

( id, name terminated by "$", dept terminated by "^", salary, hiredon DATE "dd-mon-yyyy" )

Load the data using sqlldr as shown below.

$ sqlldr scott/tiger control=/home/ramesh/sqlldr-date.ctl

Verify that the data got loaded properly as shown below.

SQL> select * from employee;

ID NAME DEPT SALARY HIREDON

---------- ---------- --------------- ---------- ---------

100 Thomas Sales 5000 31-JAN-08

200 Jason Technology 5500 01-FEB-05

300 Mayla Technology 7000 10-AUG-00

400 Nisha Marketing 9500 12-DEC-11

500 Randy Technology 6000 01-JAN-07

5. Fixed Length Data Upload

If you have a data file without data that are fixed length (i.e without any
delimiter), you can use this example to upload this data.

For this example, let us use the following file which has data that are of
fixed length. For example, 1st three characters are always employee
number, Next 5 characters are always employee name, etc.
 $ cat employee-fixed.txt

200JasonTechnology5500
300MaylaTechnology7000

400NishaTechnology9500

500RandyTechnology6000

Create the following control file, where you specific the position of each
and every field as shown below usig the Position(start:end) syntax.

$ cat sqlldr-fixed.ctl

load data

infile '/home/ramesh/employee-fixed.txt'
into table employee

fields terminated by ","

( id position(1:3), name position(4:8), dept position(9:18), salary position(19:22) )

Load this fixed length data using the sqlldr as shown below.

$ sqlldr scott/tiger control=/home/ramesh/sqlldr-fixed.ctl

Verify that the data got loaded.

SQL> select * from employee;

ID NAME DEPT SALARY HIREDON

---------- ---------- --------------- ---------- ---------

200 Jason Technology 5500

300 Mayla Technology 7000

400 Nisha Technology 9500

500 Randy Technology 6000

6. Change the data during upload

You can also massage the data and change it during upload based on
certain rules.

In the following control file:

id is incremented by 999 before uploading. i.e if the emp id is 100 in

the data file, it will be loaded as 1099
Convert the name to upper case and load it. This uses the upper
function.
If the department contains the value Technology change it to
Techies. This uses decode function
 $ cat sqlldr-change-data.ctl

load data

infile '/home/ramesh/employee.txt'
into table employee

fields terminated by ","

( id ":id+999",

name "upper(:name)",
dept "decode(:dept,'Technology','Techies', :dept)",

salary

Load the data using this control file which will massage the data before
uploading it.

$ sqlldr scott/tiger control=/home/ramesh/sqlldr-change-data.ctl

Verify that the data got changed while loading as per our rules.

SQL> select * from employee;

ID NAME DEPT SALARY HIREDON

---------- ---------- --------------- ---------- ---------

1099 THOMAS Sales 5000

1199 JASON Techies 5500

1299 MAYLA Techies 7000

1399 NISHA Marketing 9500

1499 RANDY Techies 6000

7. Load data from multiple files

To load data from multiple files, you just have to specify multiple infile in
the control file.

The following control file loads data from two different data files
(employee.txt and newemployee.txt) to the employee table.

$ sqlldr-add-multiple.ctl

load data
infile '/home/ramesh/employee.txt'

infile '/home/ramesh/newemployee.txt'

into table employee

fields terminated by ","

( id, name, dept, salary )

Load the data using this control file which will upload data from multiple
data files as shown below.
 $ sqlldr scott/tiger control=/home/ramesh/sqlldr-add-multiple.ctl

Commit point reached - logical record count 5

Commit point reached - logical record count 7

8. Load data to Multiple Tables

Create another table called bonus which will have employee id and bonus
columns.

create table bonus

( id integer,

bonus integer

);

Create the employee-bonus.txt data file that contains the fields: id, name,
department, salary, bonus

$ cat employee-bonus.txt

100 Thomas Sales 5000 1000

200 Jason Technology 5500 2000

300 Mayla Technology 7000 2000

400 Nisha Marketing 9500 1000

500 Randy Technology 6000 3000

Create the control file as shown below, which will upload the data from the
above file to two different tables. As shown below, you should have two
into table commands, and specify the position of the data which needs to
be used to upload the data to that column.

$ cat sqlldr-multiple-tables.ctl

load data
infile '/home/ramesh/employee-bonus.txt'

into table employee

( id position(1:3),

name position(5:10),
dept position(12:21),

salary position(23:26))

into table bonus

( id position(1:3),

bonus position(28:31))

Load the data to multiple tables using this control file as shown below.

$ sqlldr scott/tiger control=/home/ramesh/sqlldr-multiple-tables.ctl

Verify that the data got loaded to multiple tables successfully.

 SQL> select * from employee;

ID NAME DEPT SALARY HIREDON

---------- ---------- --------------- ---------- ---------

100 Thomas Sales 5000

200 Jason Technology 5500

300 Mayla Technology 7000

400 Nisha Marketing 9500

500 Randy Technology 6000

SQL> select * from bonus;

ID BONUS

---------- ----------

100 1000

200 2000
300 2000

400 1000

500 3000

9. Handling Bad (Rejected) Records

In the following example, we have two bad records. Employee id 300 and
500 has salary column which is not numeric.

$ cat employee-bad.txt
100,Thomas,Sales,5000

200,Jason,Technology,5500

300,Mayla,Technology,7K

400,Nisha,Marketing,9500
500,Randy,Technology,6K

Use the following control file for this example.

$ cat sqlldr-bad.ctl

load data
infile '/home/ramesh/employee-bad.txt'

into table employee

fields terminated by ","

( id, name, dept, salary )

Load the data (including the invalid records) using this control file as shown
below.

$ sqlldr scott/tiger control=/home/ramesh/sqlldr-bad.ctl

Commit point reached - logical record count 5

As you see from the abvoe output, it still says logical record count 5, but
you should check the log files to see if it has rejected any records.

The log file indicates that 2 records are rejected as shown below:

Control File: /home/ramesh/sqlldr-bad.ctl

Data File: /home/ramesh/employee-bad.txt

Bad File: /home/ramesh/employee-bad.bad

Discard File: none specified

Table EMPLOYEE:

3 Rows successfully loaded.

2 Rows not loaded due to data errors.

By default the rejected records are stored in a file that has the same name
as the data file (but with .bad extension)

$ cat employee-bad.bad

300,Mayla,Technology,7K

500,Randy,Technology,6K

As you see below, the employee table has only 3 records (as 2 of them
were rejected).

SQL> select * from employee;

ID NAME DEPT SALARY HIREDON

---------- ---------- --------------- ---------- ---------

100 Thomas Sales 5000

200 Jason Technology 5500

400 Nisha Marketing 9500

10. Load Specific Rows from a datafile

If you want to load only a specific records from a data file use the WHEN in
the control file.

Add the line when next to into table line. In the following control file,
the when clause indicates that it will load only the records that have dept
as Technology.

$ cat sqlldr-when.ctl

load data

infile '/home/ramesh/employee.txt'

into table employee

when dept = 'Technology'

fields terminated by ","

( id, name, dept, salary )
Load the selective data (only the Technology records) using this control
file as shown below.

$ sqlldr scott/tiger control=/home/ramesh/sqlldr-when.ctl

Commit point reached - logical record count 5

As you see from the above output, it still says logical record count 5, but
you should check the log files to see how many records were loaded, and
how many records were discarded because it didnt match the when
condition.

The following from the log file shows that 5 records were read, and 2 of
them were discarded as it didnt match the when condition.

Discard File: none specified

Total logical records read: 5

Total logical records discarded: 2

Verify that only the selective records were loaded into the table.

SQL> select * from employee;

ID NAME DEPT SALARY HIREDON

---------- ---------- --------------- ---------- ---------

200 Jason Technology 5500

300 Mayla Technology 7000

500 Randy Technology 6000

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Nice

I will be reading Oracle & PL/SQL next month.

Thanks for the article.

L I N K

hdaz

Great Post.. thanks for the examples

L I N K

Prasath

This is Nice.

We Need More Examples Like This..

Thanks.

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pathum

excellent article i love your all post

thanks for all

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Lin Thein Naing

Really awesome!!!! Appreciate .

L I N K
Manjula

Question. My data file has 30 columns. The table has 38 columns. I

need to pick only 3 columns from the data file (5th, 10th and 25th column)
and load into the table (column 3rd, 9th and 16th column of table). How do
I do this? Any Idea?

L I N K

Prithviraj

@Ramesh: Awesome article. Very simple language and

understandable examples. Thanks for sharing. I have few questions for
you:
1) In example 8, terminated clause is not mentioned, because fields are
terminated by space. So by derfault spaces are considered as delimiters?
2) I read that Badfile can be explicitly specified using clause BADFILE
filename.extension. But on some links I see it mentioned as
BAD=file.extension
Which one is correct.
3) On link below:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8039012/disable-bad-discard-file-log-
on-sql-loader
it is mentioned that, bad file can be diabled by setting BAD=NUL (in
windows) or redirecting bad output to /dev/null (on linux). Is it possible? I
do not see any references on oracle site for this.

@Manjula:
Ramesh has explained answer to your question in example 8.

L I N K

Prithviraj

Hello Ramesh,
Regarding disabling bad files i confirmed. In windows it can be done using:
BADFILE NUL
And in linux it can be done using: BADFILE /dev/null

L I N K

Rohit K

Hi Ramesh,

This is simply superb

I need your help in loading the single file where the scenario quite clumsy
for me:
The data file sale_exec.dat:
_____________________________________________
CUST_TYPE | DATE | AMT | DISCOUNT_AMT
X |20120101 | 200 | 20
X |20120101 | 400 | 30
Y |20120303 | 300 |40
Z |20120303 | 20 |50
_______________________________________________

The table structure is :

TABLE SALES
{
VENDORID NUMBER,
REPORT_DATE DATE,
LOAD_DATE DATE,
AMOUNT NUMBER
}

Scenario:
1. The data within the file sales_exec.dat has to be loaded into the table
SALES
2. When CUST_TYP is X the Vendorid should be 1 , when Y it should load
vendor ID with 2 and similarly when it is Z then Vendor ID should be 3
3. When the CUST_TYP is X and Y I need to load the records with the AMT in
the data file into the SALES table AMOUNT field
4. When the CUST_TYP is Z then I need to load the records with the
DISCOUNT_AMT in the data file into the SALES table AMOUNT FIELD

The table data from the Data file after load should look like below:
_____________________________________________
VENDORID | REPORT_DATE| AMOUNT
1 |20120101 | 200
1 |20120101 | 400
2 |20120303 | 300
3 |20120303 | 50
_______________________________________________

Please let me know how should I proceed further and what should be my
cntl file.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Rohit

L I N K

Prithviraj

@Rohit,
This is not possible using SQL loaders. Because data type of VendorId is
numeric and from infile you are getting characters. You have two
approches here:
1) Either you process your infile first and replace X by 1, y by 2, z by 3.
Then use SQL loader using when condition to check what vendoe id is it
and amount column should take what value. OR
2) You need to use external tables and SQL functions in this scenario.
Refer:
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?
p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:1710164700346004127

L I N K

Rohit K

Thank You Prithviraj .

We can do it using a control file this way.

I tried using the boundfiller,decodes and my CONTROL file will look like this:
INFILE=sale_exec.dat
APPEND
PRESERVE BLANKS
INTO TABLE SALES
FIELDS TERMINATED BY , OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY TRAILING
NULLCOLS
(
c1 BOUNDFILLER,
REPORT_DATE,
c2 BOUNDFILLER,
c3 BOUNDFILLER,
VENDORID to_number(DECODE(:c1,X,1,Y,2,3)),
AMOUNT to_number(DECODE(:c1,Z,c3,c2))
)

This worked good for me.

Thank You once again.

Regards,
Rohit K

L I N K

SantoshCA

Hi Ramesh,
this is a very good writeup! Is there anything more advanced which
SQLLDR can handle? Would be great if you could write something on this
too.

L I N K
Jurgen

HI all,
I wanted too load mulitple files into the same tables from different ctl files
for test work. The problem is i need to be able too identify the different
files loaded in de database.
For example :
file1.ctl needs to be de name in de database under for example column
filename
file2.ctl needs to be de name in de database under for example column
filename

VENDORID | REPORT_DATE| AMOUNT|Filename

1 |20120101 | 200 |file1.ctl

1 |20120101 | 400 |file2.ctl

Anyone knows how i can get this accomplished.

Kind regards,

Jurgen

L I N K

Mahes Tripathi

Thanks for giving such valuable examples. Could you please give
one example of control file to upload data in a file and then call a
procedure to implement some logic and populate main table.

L I N K

souji

Very nice article.

Better understandable format. Explained well.
We need more examples like this.

L I N K

souji

Hi All,

I have a flatfile(notepad), which has data not in order, fields separated by

space, that too not orderly separated. Between fields there is space, but
not ordered one. like

consultant name vendor details email contact end client

David Raj jason Roy jasonroy@example.com (010) 110-1101 CAAM

above line, you can notice that there is no specified space between fields. i
have nearly 7000 rows of data in notepad. I tried using field terminated by
space but, it has taken the entire row of data from notepad as a single
column data in table, remaining fields in table are empty.

In this case is there any kind of solution/control file format to load the data
into tables. It would be great if anyone can solve my problem.

Thanks
souji

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sanchit

very nice tutorial. great job

L I N K

Kenneth Y

Wow! Excellent guide!

L I N K

Dhawal Limbuwala

Hi I Am Doing Computer Science And This Helps Me To Lot Thank

You So Much.

L I N K

ashok

nice tutorial .simple to understand..

L I N K

Imteyaz

Very good post! Appreciate it!!!

L I N K

Naveen

Great Explanation , simple and clear.

L I N K

Naresh

I have a excel sheet, with no comma separated, and not enclosed

in ..
its just normal excel sheet with data for 7 columns..

Can anyone tell me how to load it

L I N K

Ashok

Nic explanation

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Praveen Kumar

Thanks.
The article is very good and easily understandable.

L I N K

praveen

was really helpfull!

L I N K

rajesh

Nice explanation, thank you so much!

L I N K

Muhd Islam

Its great explanation .

L I N K

Gauthama P

Thanks!

L I N K
charan

its very useful helpful for starters thanks for a very simple
explanation

L I N K

Shivanand

Nice article ..Thanks !

L I N K

Vivek V

Really nice article

L I N K

Aabid

very-2 nice example

L I N K

CRP

Greate article, thank you for sharing.

L I N K

Prasad

After executing this below command from oracle forms6 sqlldr80

does not resume back to form, it remains there cursor blinking after
Commit point reached logical record count 10. It started from last week
only, never happend before dont know what made to act like this?

sqlldr80 USERID=kaps/kaps@kaporacle CONTROL=I:\load.CTL

LOG=I:\LoadLOG.LOG BAD=I:\LoadBAD.BAD

Is there any way to terminate the control file i mean to exit sqlldr and come
back to DOS prompt? It is not coming out of sqlldr mode but inserting
data is done perfectly.. any help appreciated

L I N K
Satya

Very Nice !!!!!! BUT how to load default value to a field.

L I N K

Uday

I have a different scenario. I have a table with 5 columns, c1, c2,

c3, c4, c5 and a csv file has 6 columns, a,c1,c2,c3,c4,c5. I would like to
load c1 to c5 columns data from the csv file to c1 to c5 columns in the
table. Can we skip columns any columns from csv or can we map csv
columns to table columns in the loader control file ?

L I N K

Uday

I got it. Keeping FILLER keyword to the right of column name would
skip the column:

For e.g.:

OPTIONS (SKIP=1)
LOAD DATA
INFILE source.csv
BADFILE source.csv.bad
DISCARDFILE source.csv.dsc
APPEND
INTO TABLE tab_name
FIELDS TERMINATED BY , OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY
TRAILING NULLCOLS
( a FILLER
,c1
,c2
,c3
,c4
,c5
)

L I N K

Rajiv

Nice doc

L I N K

annuj
how to insert last n rows from a data file through control file in sql
loader?

L I N K

N S KRISHNA

Hi,
How to insert alternate rows into two different tables. I mean to insert
1,3,5,7,9, Records into Table1 and 2,4,6,8,10,.. into Table 2. Is there
any option to build control to achieve this? Please let me know.
Thank You

L I N K

vikram

simply great !!! Thank u so much.

L I N K

anudeep

nice article

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Prasanna Suri

Nice way to explain the things.great work:)

L I N K

phani

Very good!!!! good knowledge

L I N K

Tushar Sharma

Hi,

Thanks for great article, Is there any way to write control file with
update statements. I want to update few records. Is there any way around
?

Thanks
-Tushar
L I N K

M.Ayaz

very nice and informative.

L I N K

Mayur

If I have too many columns which is not a feasible option to write

each and every how can this be done??
Can anyone please suggest

L I N K

Pratibha

Article was really helpful. Easy and simple examples to

understand. Please post such articles on daily basis.

L I N K

Tushar

Thanx. I learned a lot here.

L I N K

Vinoth

Simple and Best ..

Easy to Learn

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MANOJ REDDY

i am learned with half an hour.

thank you very much

L I N K

Sudhakar

Hi All,

Thanks for the wonderful sharing. I am stuck here. hope someone can help
me.
I am trying to upload a flat file(824 rows) in an oracle db but i am getting
an error.

CONTROL FILE
====================
load data
infile /sit/bcpr/bcpdata/ETL/SUDS/hk_stg_finiq_cust_acct.txt
into table ABC123
fields terminated by , optionally enclosed by TRAILING NULLCOLS
(BUSINESS_DATE,
ACCT_NO,
ID_DOC_TYPE_PRIM,
ID_DOC_NO_PRIM,
ACCT_REL_TYP_PRIM,
ID_DOC_TYPE1,
ID_DOC_NO1,
ACCT_REL_TYP1,
ID_DOC_TYPE2,
ID_DOC_NO2,
ACCT_REL_TYP2,
ID_DOC_TYPE3,
ID_DOC_NO3,
ACCT_REL_TYP3,
ID_DOC_TYPE4,
ID_DOC_NO4,
ACCT_REL_TYP4,
ACCT_STATUS,
ACCT_OPEN_BRANCH_NO,
ARM_CODE,
AGRMT_DT,
ACCT_OPN_DT,
ACCT_CL_DT,
PRD_MAP,
COUNTRY_CD,
CREATE_DATE,
CREATE_USER,
SRC_STM_SHORT_NM)

ERROR
==========
SQL*Loader: Release 10.2.0.1.0 Production on Fri Jul 11 17:56:59 2014

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

SQL*Loader-350: Syntax error at line 16388.

Expecting keyword INTO, found ).
)
^
..
plase help me
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siva

Thanks..it easy to understand to New guys also.

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shakeer

U forgot to mension insert command before into.

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Anonymous

Good Example on SQL Loader.

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prawin

i have db background but my knowledge about sql loader is not

that great.
my question is if i have data file.. say the order of coumns in
loader file is val1,val2,val3,val4 so on
what should be the order/sequence of the columns in my control file..
should it be val1,val2,val3,val4..??
what if i have a column as filler,
finally how does the order of columns in table comes in to play..
thanks in advance, i know these are very basic questions but.. i need
them for my current job requires requires dealing with lot of data loads.

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SheFixesThings

Thank you! I was able to figure out a few things that I was missing
but need one more thing that Im surprised isnt mentioned here.

I would love to see an example of how to append a wildcard onto an INFILE

statement. Lets say that you have a filename that is automatically
generated from another source for EACH day. Coding the parms for the
date are simple, and ideally there should only be one file for the day so the
last part of the filename is a timestamp that would be impossible to
determine since its a 3rd-party source.

For example, todays filename is:

AUTOLOAD2014M141224_100038012.csv
On the CTL file, the INFILE is set as

INFILE
L:\MyFolder\MySubFolder\IMPORT\AUTOLOAD\AUTOLOAD2014M\%getMyPa
rm%*.csv

the BAT file has this to build getMyParm up to the day of the month
SET YEAR=%DATE:~10,4%
SET MONTH=%DATE:~4,2%
SET DAY=%DATE:~7,2%
SET DASH=_
SET WILD=*.csv
SET
getMyParm=AUTOLOAD%YEAR%M14%MONTH%%DAY%%DASH%%WILD%

SQLLDR command is:

SQLLDR USERID=CREPORTS/CRPTSPWX@XYZ.COM:1234/MyDaySchema
CONTROL=DAILYLOADCONTROL.CTL LOG=DAILYLOAD_HISTORY.LOG

At manual execution, I receive this

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

SQL*Loader-500: Unable to open file

(L:\MyFolder\MySubFolder\IMPORT\AUTOLOAD\AUTOLOAD2014M\AUTOLOA
D2014M141224_*.csv)
SQL*Loader-554: error opening file
SQL*Loader-509: System error: The device does not recognize the
command.
SQL*Loader-2026: the load was aborted because SQL Loader cannot
continue.

I would think it would recognize a * per other CMD forums I checked. I even
tried hardcoding the *.csv on the INFILE within the CTL but that returns the
same result and the same error.

Any ideas as to what its seeing and interpretting?

Thank you

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Ramana

i have tow tables Stage1 and Stage2 how to load stage1 data into
Stage2 in sql loader.
pls help me any one.

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vikash kumar

while coding in shell script and need to run script in other ip. So,
we do ssh but i dont want to hard code password. So is there any
alternate way to do this in shell scripting

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Anonymous

Can not be more better than this article about SQL*Loader. I really
loved it..

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Anonymous

Thanks

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SHARATH

Good article !!! Good explanation with examples !!1

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Vivek

Awesome post!

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Lajpat Kurdiya

The BEST article on SQL*Loaderwith great examples

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Bhaskar Reddy

Good article with examples.Every one can understand easily.

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Pravin Singh

Great Job! Thanks..

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prakash

You helped lot of people to understand what actually the sql loader
is and how it worksThanks from all of usKeep post your articels..

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Vaibhav

My column is shipped date and data type is date but at some place
it has written null thats why in my particular table data wasnt show
please help how can I overcome this.

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durga

Hi Ramesh,
As per my requirement Sql* loader should not enter a single record into
table if even one row contain wrong data.

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Anonymous

can we load the data from a single OS file into multiple tables
without using data positions

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ANKIT

Awesome tutorial..Helped lot

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VIVEK

Very Very Usefull.

Thanks alot.

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Brindhavi

Very good explanation! will do good for beginners as I am

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Sreenivasula Reddy vayalpati

very nice artical ramesh,thanku very much

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mee

great post !! . thanks it is much useful to beginners

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Himanshu

It would be very kind if you help me as you have done it in recent

past. So I want to know the following questions to be answered:

1. How do we insert one value(field) into multiple(different) columns in sql

loader.

2. Describe in Detail the following:

I: Trailing by nullcols.
II: Optionally closed by.

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