Comments on: SQL*Loader external tables

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:05:08 +0000

Step 1 needs a ; at the end

By: Donald

Donald — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:04:56 +0000

Thanks for your article. I need your advice inusing the function ‘replace’ in the access parameters of the External Table. I am replacing all the ‘\’ with a null value in column straatnaam_nen( “replace(:STRAATNAAM_NEN, ‘\’, ”)” )

Appreciate your help,

Kind Regards
Donald

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:49:06 +0000

Luis, I finally got back to this and did it justice. I apologize for the delay. You can find it here.

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:10:45 +0000

I can replicate your problem if I change the ownership of the directory to something other than the Oracle database OS user’s account and restrict both group and user read access. Here’s the error I got and another post about discovering the file.

SQL> SELECT * FROM character;
SELECT * FROM character
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error IN executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: DATA cartridge error
KUP-04040: file character.csv IN DOWNLOAD NOT found

I’d suggest you change the directory permissions to 740 if you want to allow only read or 760 if you want to allow read and write. The other way I replicated it was to have no physical file present. That’s a different issue. I’ve added to the blog post to solve for it.

Hope this helps.

By: Luis Isunza

Luis Isunza — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:17:01 +0000

I need your help. When i created a external table all is ok. But when I run a select return the next error:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04040: file TEMP.LST in EXT_DIR not found
ORA-06512: at “SYS.ORACLE_LOADER”, line 14
ORA-06512: at line 1

Can you help me?

Thanks.

By: Karsten

Karsten — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:18:47 +0000

As a side note, keep your CSV files in the directory you create with the CREATE DIRECTORY … command. The CREATE TABLE … statement will likely be in an SQL file, but you put that into the BIN dir (or another place).