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wildcard for Sql*Loader??? [message #72544] Mon, 14 July 2003 10:25 Go to next message
sharon foley
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Registered: July 2003
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The following wildcard does not work in SQL*Loader. Does anyone know of a way to load only the data like N1xxxx?

APPEND INTO TABLE UNION_DED_PRELIM
WHEN (DEDCD LIKE 'N1%')
Re: wildcard for Sql*Loader??? [message #72571 is a reply to message #72544] Mon, 21 July 2003 20:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Barbara Boehmer
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Registered: November 2002
Location: California, USA
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SQL*Loader WHEN clause can only compare using equal or not equal. It can't use LIKE. So you need to separate the substring of the first two characters as if it were a separate column. Then you can check if that = 'N1'.
Re: wildcard for Sql*Loader??? [message #72574 is a reply to message #72544] Tue, 22 July 2003 16:13 Go to previous message
Barbara Boehmer
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Registered: November 2002
Location: California, USA
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I received your e-mail saying that it didn't solve your problem. Here is an example to demonstrate how to do it. I have used a fixed position text file, however it can also be done with a delimited text file. If this still doesn't solve your problem, please post more specifics, such as your table structure, text file structure, and control file.

SQL> -- test table:
SQL> DESC union_ded_prelim
Name Null? Type
----------------------------------------- -------- -------------------------
DEDCD VARCHAR2(10)
OTHER_COLUMN VARCHAR2(10)
.
.
contents of test_data.txt:
N123456789 SOMETHING
N198765432 WHATEVER
N234567890 NOT N1
.
.
-- beginning of test.ctl
LOAD DATA
INFILE 'test_data.txt'
APPEND
INTO TABLE union_ded_prelim
WHEN dedcd2 = 'N1'
TRAILING NULLCOLS
(dedcd2 FILLER POSITION (1:2),
dedcd POSITION ( 1:10),
other_column POSITION (12:21))
-- end of test.ctl
.
.
SQL> HOST sqlldr scott/tiger control=test.ctl log=test.log bad=test.bad
.
.
SQL> -- results:
SQL> SELECT * FROM union_ded_prelim
2 /

DEDCD OTHER_COLU
---------- ----------
N123456789 SOMETHING
N198765432 WHATEVER
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