Error loading local CSV file into external table

Hello,
I am trying to load a CSV file located on my C:\ drive on a WIndows XP system into an 'external table'. Everyting used to work correctly when using Oracle XE (iinstalled also locally on my WIndows system).
However, once I am trynig to load the same file into a Oracle 11g R2 database on UNIX, I get the following errr:
ORA-29913: Error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
error opening file ...\...\...nnnnn.log
Please let me know if I can achieve the same functionality I had with Oracle XP.
(Note: I cannot use SQL*Loader approach, I am invoking Oracle stored procedures from VB.Net that are attempting to load data into external tables).
Regards,
M.R.

user7047382 wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to load a CSV file located on my C:\ drive on a WIndows XP system into an 'external table'. Everyting used to work correctly when using Oracle XE (iinstalled also locally on my WIndows system).
However, once I am trynig to load the same file into a Oracle 11g R2 database on UNIX, I get the following errr:
ORA-29913: Error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
error opening file ...\...\...nnnnn.log
Please let me know if I can achieve the same functionality I had with Oracle XP.
(Note: I cannot use SQL*Loader approach, I am invoking Oracle stored procedures from VB.Net that are attempting to load data into external tables).
Regards,
M.R.So your database is on a unix box, but the file is on your Windows desktop machine? So .... how is it you are making your file (on your desktop) visible to your database (on a unix box)???????

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Hi,
I have a csv file which contains the date(with time stamp), column1(number),column2(number), column3 (number). I am using external tables concept to load the data froom csv to this external table and then merging into the main table. Problem here is : the csv file is a system generated file and nothing can be edited under it. our aim is to automate this process of loading data from csv to the table. In this csv the date time stamp is not in the proper format.I mean the date is not visible and only minutes and seconds are visible.By changing the format in csv manually this can be overcome.but we donot need any manual intervention.
how can i overcome this problem ?? please help mee...
Excels data looks like:
(PDH-TSV 4.0) (India Standard Time)(-330)     \\DISAPPSER01\Processor(_Total)\% Privileged Time     \\DISAPPSER01\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time     \\DISAPPSER01\Web Service(_Total)\Current Connections
56:59.0               47
57:09.0     0.72379582     4.204561281     46
57:19.0     0.916548537     4.006179927     44
57:29.0     0.663034771     3.674662541     43
57:39.0     0.750789844     4.093933999     42
57:49.0     0.721538487     2.650858026     40
57:59.0     0.594781604     3.333393703     40

please format your sample data giving header to the column so that we can make sense out of the values, also since the minutes and seconds are only given, what is the date to be considered for records to be moved to the master table, sysdate or will the date be passed as a parameter?

Load CSV file into a table when a button is clicked by the user

Hello,
Can anyone please help me out with this issue, I have a form where in a user comes and uploads a CSV file and clicks a button, when the button is clicked - it should load the CSV file data into the database table for the corresponding columns.
Can anyone please suggest me a possible solution or an approach.
Thanks,
Orton
Edited by: orton607 on May 5, 2010 2:00 PM

thanks fro replying.
I have tried your changes but its not working. One more question is that I am having one column which contains commas, when I tried to load the file its failing. I think its the problem with commas. So I have changed the code to use the replace function for that column, then also its not working. Can anyone please suggest a possible approach. Below is my source code for your reference.
DECLARE
v_blob_data BLOB;
v_blob_len NUMBER;
v_position NUMBER;
v_raw_chunk RAW(10000);
v_char CHAR(1);
c_chunk_len NUMBER := 1;
v_line VARCHAR2 (32767):= NULL;
v_data_array wwv_flow_global.vc_arr2;
v_rows NUMBER;
v_sr_no NUMBER := 1;
l_cnt BINARY_INTEGER := 0;
l_stepid NUMBER := 10;
BEGIN
delete from sample_tbl;
-- Read data from wwv_flow_files</span>
select blob_content into v_blob_data from wwv_flow_files
where last_updated = (select max(last_updated) from wwv_flow_files where UPDATED_BY = :APP_USER)
and id = (select max(id) from wwv_flow_files where updated_by = :APP_USER);
v_blob_len := dbms_lob.getlength(v_blob_data);
v_position := 1;
-- Read and convert binary to char</span>
WHILE ( v_position <= v_blob_len ) LOOP
v_raw_chunk := dbms_lob.substr(v_blob_data,c_chunk_len,v_position);
v_char := chr(hex_to_decimal(rawtohex(v_raw_chunk)));
v_line := v_line || v_char;
v_position := v_position + c_chunk_len;
-- When a whole line is retrieved </span>
IF v_char = CHR(10) THEN
-- Convert comma to : to use wwv_flow_utilities </span>
v_line := REPLACE (v_line, ',', ':');
-- Convert each column separated by : into array of data </span>
v_data_array := wwv_flow_utilities.string_to_table (v_line);
-- Insert data into target table </span>
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'insert into sample_tbl(col1..col12)
values (:1,:2,:3,:4,:5,:6,:7,:8,:9,:10,:11,:12)'
USING
v_sr_no,
v_data_array(1),
v_data_array(2),
v_data_array(3),
v_data_array(4),
v_data_array(5),
v_data_array(6),
v_data_array(7),
v_data_array(8),
REPLACE(v_data_array(9), ':', ','),
to_date(v_data_array(10),'MM/DD/YYYY'),
v_data_array(11);
-- Clear out
v_line := NULL;
v_sr_no := v_sr_no + 1;
l_cnt := l_cnt + SQL%ROWCOUNT;
END IF;
END LOOP;
COMMIT;
l_stepid := 20;
IF l_cnt = 0 THEN
apex_application.g_print_success_message := apex_application.g_print_success_message || ' Please select a file to upload ' ;
ELSE
apex_application.g_print_success_message := apex_application.g_print_success_message || 'File uploaded and processed ' || l_cnt || ' record(s) successfully.';
END IF;
l_stepid := 30;
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
ROLLBACK;
apex_application.g_print_success_message := apex_application.g_print_success_message || 'Failed to upload the file. '||REGEXP_REPLACE(SQLERRM,'[('')(<)(>)(,)(;)(:)(")('')]{1,}', '') ;
END;
Below is the function which I am using to convert hex to decimal
create or replace function hex_to_decimal( p_hex_str in varchar2 ) return number
is
v_dec number;
v_hex varchar2(16) := '0123456789ABCDEF';
begin
v_dec := 0;
for indx in 1 .. length(p_hex_str)
loop
v_dec := v_dec * 16 + instr(v_hex,upper(substr(p_hex_str,indx,1)))-1;
end loop;
return v_dec;
end hex_to_decimal;
thanks,
Orton

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