I want to load a flat file into oracle Database. This flat file may be generated from table A or table B or table C.
So when I am loading this file into oracle table , I am exactly not sure how many columns and what data type is column has that flat file has ( depends on whether it is generated from table A or table B or table C ).
So, pls let me know the generic method, technique to load variable column length file into oracle database.
Example:
So, here each table has variable columns and different datatype. How can I load these file into oracle database.
Thanks in advance.
One option is to use SQLLoader to load files into tables.
Say we have created three tables:
CREATE TABLE tableA(
col1 int, col2 int, col3 int, col4 int
);
CREATE TABLE tableB(
col1 int, col2 varchar2(100), col3 int, col4 int, col5 int, col6 varchar2(100)
);
CREATE TABLE tableC(
col1 varchar2(100), col2 date, col3 number(10,2)
);
I am assuming that the file has always records in one format only (one of 3 possible formats).
In such a case, you can create 3 different control files for each format:
format_a.ctl
load data
infile 'c:\tmp\test\file.txt'
into table tableA
fields terminated by "|"
( col1, col2, col3, col4 )
format_b.ctl
load data
infile 'c:\tmp\test\file.txt'
into table tableB
fields terminated by "|"
( col1, col2, col3, col4, col5, col6 )
format_c.ctl
infile 'c:\tmp\test\file.txt'
into table tableC
fields terminated by "|"
( col1 ,
col2 date 'yyyy-mm-dd',
col3 )
Then create a simple script that detects a format of the file and uploads data using an appropriate control file - this is an example for Windows environment:
@echo off
set filename=file.txt
IF NOT EXIST %filename% GOTO error
findstr /M "\|.*\|.*\|.*\|.*\|" file.txt
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO formatB
findstr /M "\|.*\|.*\|" file.txt
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO formatA
findstr /M "\|.*\|" file.txt
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO formatC
:error
Echo Error: file %filename% doesn't exist or doesn't match any proper format
goto end
:formatA
set ctl_file=format_a
goto import
:formatB
set ctl_file=format_b
goto import
:formatc
set ctl_file=format_c
goto import
:import
echo Import using: %ctl_file%
sqlldr test/test@//192.168.2.51:1521/orcl control=%ctl_file%.ctl log=%ctl_file%.log
:end
In this line:
sqlldr test/test@//192.168.2.51:1521/orcl control=%ctl_file%.ctl log=%ctl_file%.log
test/test@ is a database user test
having password test