EXTERNAL TABLE PARALLEL (DEGREE DEFAULT)

Ask you if in external table the clause SKIP 1 used with PARALLEL (DEGREE 4)
skip the first record for each session in parallel . Where i could set the the parallel parameter ?
Thanks

Default value have a sense during insertion. Since you cannot insert into an external table (with some Slight oversight in the Concepts guide regarding external tables with datapump table), what will the target to have such feature ?
Nicolas.

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Hi,
I am working in 10g database(10.2.0.1). I have insert statement which uses table A(120 M rows), B(0.5M rows) and C (0.2M rows) to insert on table D.
Following are the table definitions:
Table A - Is partitioned, has unique indexe and is declared NOPARALLEL DEGREE.
Table B - Has unique indexe and is declared NOPARALLEL DEGREE.
Table C - Has unique indexe and is declared NOPARALLEL DEGREE.
Table D - Has declared NOPARALLEL DEGREE.
a) When using the insert on table D using tables A,B and C using HINT /*+ APPEND PARALLEL(table name 12) / and also given on Inset table with /+ APPEND PARALLEL(table name 12). For most of the time it shows 17 to 21 sessions.
INSERT INTO /*+ APPEND PARALLEL(d 12)*/ D d
(x,y,z)
SELECT /*+ PARALLEL(A 12) PARALLEL(B 12) PARALLEL(C 12)*/
bla. bla...bla...
with few joins on the respective tables
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My questions are:
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ii) How oracle takes and uses no of sessions while executing the query?
iii) Is there any where we can see or monitor the session tracking ?
iv) How many max sessions can a query like above insert can take/use for the user schema?
v) Is it possible for the developers to reduce and increase the sessions while executing the query ?
vi) On what basis the sessions get increase or decrease?
If any of them can provide answers to above query it will be helpful...
Regards,
Prakash C

The following link might help u a bit in understanding parallelism concept for queries -
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14223/usingpe.htm

Network location for external table's file

Hi,
I am trying to import data from a csv file in oracle 10g database. I can successfully upload data from a csv file located on server itself using external table. But when I redefine directory object on a folder on network location, it doesn't work. Is that a limitation with external tables to access data from a file on network location.
Any clarifications and suggestions would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Aniket

Hi Nicolas,
I created a directory object pointing to a folder on a system(Other than Oracle 10g server) in the network. This folder is shared and can be accessed from the Oracle 10g server. When I create an external table with the default directory as the shared folder it couldn't read the csv file from that folder ( Shared folder on another system).
But when I redefined the directory object on a local folder which was on Oracle 10g server, it could read from csv file in the local folder using external table.
My understanding is using external tables, one can only read files that are on the local machine i.e. Oracle 10g server and not on a different system.
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External Table 4-   Default Values

Hi
My External Table is working fine , but I want put Default Values when Null, Example when COD_REJ is NULL I want Put 3 spaces
CREATE TABLE SPAYDES.TB_EXT_BONUS
SEQ       CHAR(11 BYTE),
CNPJ      CHAR(14 BYTE),
CARTAO    CHAR(16 BYTE),
NOME      CHAR(30 BYTE),
MATR_ATU CHAR(10 BYTE),
MATR_NEW CHAR(10 BYTE),
SIT_REG   CHAR(1 BYTE),
COD_REJ   CHAR(3 BYTE)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
( TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
     DEFAULT DIRECTORY EXT_DIR_BONUS
     ACCESS PARAMETERS
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     fields (
       SEQ       position(1: 11) CHAR(11),
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       CARTAO    position(26:41) CHAR(16),
       NOME      position(42:71) CHAR(30),
       MATR_ATU position(72:81) CHAR(10),
       MATR_NEW position(82:91) CHAR(10),
       SIT_REG   position(92:92) CHAR(1),
       COD_REJ   position(93:95) CHAR(3))
     LOCATION (EXT_DIR_BONUS:'BONUS.TXT')
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITEDThank You

never tried by may be you can do this? Not sure on
this one.
COD_REJ position(93:95) CHAR(3) default '   '
I tried , but
SQL> SELECT * FROM SPAYDES.TB_EXT_BONUS;
SELECT * FROM SPAYDES.TB_EXT_BONUS
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ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-00554: error encountered while parsing access parameters
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4EA3 external table default directory not appearing

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CBO generating Parallel Query on tables of Degree 1

In Oracle 9i release I have two tables which at one point in time were of degree 3. We have since changed these tables and their indexes back to degree 1 via ALTER TABLE ... PARALLEL (DEGREE 1) and ALTER INDEX ... PARALLEL (DEGREE 1). A query of DBA_TABLES and DBA_INDEXES verifies that the tables and their indexes are now degree 1. The database's OPTIMIZER_MODE is set to CHOOSE.
For some reason the EXPLAIN PLAN of a SELECT statement joining these tables is showing a parallel query. The tables are listed with an "@:Q279919001" postfixes to the table name. I believe that indicates the CBO is going to do a parallel query.
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try this
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or
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How to spilt files when using DATA UNLOAD (External Table, 10g)?

Hi,
I am runnin 10gR2 and need to export partitions by using data_pump driver
via dmp files (External Tables).
Now as requierment the created files can not exceed 2GB mark.
Some of partitions are larger than that.
How could I split the partition so I could be able to create files smaller than 2GB? Is there any parameter I am not aware of or do I need to do SELECT COUNT(*) FROM source_table PARTITION(partiton_01);
and than to work with ROWNUM?
This example working fine for all partitions samller than 2GB:
CREATE TABLE partiton_01_tbl
2 ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
3 (
4 TYPE ORACLE_DATAPUMP
5 DEFAULT DIRECTORY def_dir1
6 LOCATION ('inv_xt1.dmp')
7 )
8 PARALLEL 3
9 AS SELECT * FROM source_table PARTITION(partiton_01);

You could specify multiple destination files in the LOCATION parameter (the number of files should match the degree of parallelism specified). I am not aware of an option that would allow the external table to automatically add new data files as the partition size increased, so you'd likely have to do some sort computation about the expected size of the dump file in order to figure out how many files to create.
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Comparison of Data Loading techniques - Sql Loader & External Tables

Below are 2 techniques using which the data can be loaded from Flat files to oracle tables.
1)     SQL Loader:
a.     Place the flat file( .txt or .csv) on the desired Location.
b.     Create a control file
Load Data
Infile "Mytextfile.txt" (-- file containing table data , specify paths correctly, it could be .csv as well)
Append or Truncate (-- based on requirement) into oracle tablename
Separated by "," (or the delimiter we use in input file) optionally enclosed by
(Field1, field2, field3 etc)
c.     Now run sqlldr utility of oracle on sql command prompt as
sqlldr username/password .CTL filename
d.     The data can be verified by selecting the data from the table.
Select * from oracle_table;
2)     External Table:
a.     Place the flat file (.txt or .csv) on the desired location.
abc.csv
1,one,first
2,two,second
3,three,third
4,four,fourth
b.     Create a directory
create or replace directory ext_dir as '/home/rene/ext_dir'; -- path where the source file is kept
c.     After granting appropriate permissions to the user, we can create external table like below.
create table ext_table_csv (
i Number,
n Varchar2(20),
m Varchar2(20)
organization external (
type oracle_loader
default directory ext_dir
access parameters (
records delimited by newline
fields terminated by ','
missing field values are null
location ('file.csv')
reject limit unlimited;
d.     Verify data by selecting it from the external table now
select * from ext_table_csv;
External tables feature is a complement to existing SQL*Loader functionality.
It allows you to –
•     Access data in external sources as if it were in a table in the database.
•     Merge a flat file with an existing table in one statement.
•     Sort a flat file on the way into a table you want compressed nicely
•     Do a parallel direct path load -- without splitting up the input file, writing
Shortcomings:
•     External tables are read-only.
•     No data manipulation language (DML) operations or index creation is allowed on an external table.
Using Sql Loader You can –
•     Load the data from a stored procedure or trigger (insert is not sqlldr)
•     Do multi-table inserts
•     Flow the data through a pipelined plsql function for cleansing/transformation
Comparison for data loading
To make the loading operation faster, the degree of parallelism can be set to any number, e.g 4
So, when you created the external table, the database will divide the file to be read by four processes running in parallel. This parallelism happens automatically, with no additional effort on your part, and is really quite convenient. To parallelize this load using SQL*Loader, you would have had to manually divide your input file into multiple smaller files.
Conclusion:
SQL*Loader may be the better choice in data loading situations that require additional indexing of the staging table. However, we can always copy the data from external tables to Oracle Tables using DB links.

Please let me know your views on this.

Use of External tables to load XML data.

Hi,
I have used external table definitions to load various XML files to the database, usually splitting the XML into seperate records - 1 per major element tag, and using PL/SQL to parse out a primary key to store in a relational table with all of the XML relevant to that primary key value stored as an XMLTYPE coumn in a row of the table. This has worked fine for XML with a single major entity (element tag) .
However, I now have an XML file that contains two "major" elements (both children of the root) that I would like to split out and store in seperate tables.
The XML file is of the following basic format:-
<drugs>
<drug>drug 1...</drug>
<drug>drug 2...</drug>
<partners>
<partner>partner 1</partner>
<partner>partner 2</partner>
</partners>
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DRUGBANK_XML CLOB
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
( TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY DRUGBANK_DIR
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( records delimited by "</partner>" SKIP 100000
characterset al32utf8
badfile extlogs:'drugbank_partners_xml.bad'
logfile extlogs:'drugbank_partners_xml.log'
discardfile extlogs:'drugbank_partners_xml.dis'
READSIZE 52428800
fields
drugbank_xml CHAR(50000000) terminated by '</partners>'
LOCATION (DRUGBANK_DIR:'drugbank.xml')
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED
PARALLEL ( DEGREE 8 INSTANCES 1 )
NOMONITORING;
The problem is that before the first <partners> element the 1800 or so <drugs> elements cause a data cartrdige error:-
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ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04020: found record longer than buffer size supported, 52428800
This happens regardless of the value of the SKIP or the size of the drugbank_xml field.
I have tried using an OR on the "records delimited by" access parameter, to 'delimit by "</partner>" OR "</drug>"', with the intention of filtering out the <drug> elements but this leads to a syntax error.
Anyone ever tried anything similar and got it to work?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Sid.

No, the content inside quotes is spanned across multiple lines....there are line breaks after every html tag.
"What's the error message you are getting?"
Iam not getting any error while selecting from external table , but I am getting tose rows in BAD file and log file has the following entries
KUP-04021: field formatting error for field TKBS_DSCN
KUP-04036: second enclosing delimiter not found
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Error while creating external table

Hi i tried to create external table. The table is created but while selecting that table it is throwing below errors
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ORA-29400: data cartridge error
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ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL (
TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY ext_tables
ACCESS PARAMETERS (
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    FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
    MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
      country_code      CHAR(5),
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      country_language CHAR(50)
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SQL> select *from countries_ext;
select *from countries_ext
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04040: file Countries1.txt in EXT_TABLES not found
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 19
SQL> Please help me in this

You are missing something. Most probably the file does not exists in your specified path. This is working in my 10.2.0.3
Step1: Check the file is actually there.
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0>mkdir temp
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0>cd temp
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\temp>dir
Volume in drive C is C_Drive
Volume Serial Number is 8A93-1441
Directory of C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\temp
07/30/2011 12:00 PM    <DIR>          .
07/30/2011 12:00 PM    <DIR>          ..
07/30/2011 12:00 PM                79 countries1.txt
               1 File(s)             79 bytes
               2 Dir(s) 50,110,582,784 bytes free
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\temp>type countries1.txt
ENG,England,English
SCO,Scotland,English
IRE,Ireland,English
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C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\temp>Step 2: Creating the directory object.
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Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Prod
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
CORE    10.2.0.3.0      Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
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SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.4.2 - Production on Sat Jul 30 12:04:24 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> CREATE TABLE countries_ext (
2    country_code      VARCHAR2(5),
3    country_name      VARCHAR2(50),
4    country_language VARCHAR2(50)
5 )
6 ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL (
7    TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
8    DEFAULT DIRECTORY ext_tables
9    ACCESS PARAMETERS (
10      RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
11      FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
12      MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
13      (
14        country_code      CHAR(5),
15        country_name      CHAR(50),
16        country_language CHAR(50)
17      )
18    )
19    LOCATION ('Countries1.txt')
20 )
21 PARALLEL 5
22 REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
Table created.
SQL> SELECT * FROM countries_ext;
COUNT COUNTRY_NAME
COUNTRY_LANGUAGE
ENG   England
English
SCO   Scotland
English
IRE   Ireland
English
COUNT COUNTRY_NAME
COUNTRY_LANGUAGE
WAL   Wales
Welsh

Error while selecting date from external table

Hello all,
I am getting the follwing error while selecting data from external table. Any idea why?
SQL> CREATE TABLE SE2_EXT (SE_REF_NO VARCHAR2(255),
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3        SE_TRAN_AMT_LCY FLOAT(126),
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7    DEFAULT DIRECTORY ext_tables
8    ACCESS PARAMETERS (
9      RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
10      FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
11      MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
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20 PARALLEL 5
21 REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
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HTH -- Mark D Powell --

How to ''give'' error for this case of an EXTERNAL TABLE?

Our external table routine works fine:
-- We have a csv file with 2 cols.
-- When we create the table referring the csv it works fine.
-- Even if the csv has more the 2 cols, the ET command only takes the 2 cols and it works fine.
-- Now, users are saying that if the csv has more than 2 cols, the ET command should give an error
I went through the command but cannot find any clause which will do this.
Is there any other way or workaround?
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ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
(TYPE oracle_loader
DEFAULT DIRECTORY <oracle_directory_object_name>
ACCESS PARAMETERS (
RECORDS DELIMITED BY newline
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LOGFILE <file_name>
[READSIZE <bytes>]
[SKIP <number_of_rows>
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REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
(<column_name_list>))\
LOCATION ('<file_name>'))
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REJECT LIMIT <UNLIMITED | integer>;
Is it possible to use the READSIZE?
Edited by: Channa on Sep 23, 2010 2:28 AM

-- Now, users are saying that if the csv has more than 2 cols, the ET command should give an error
I went through the command but cannot find any clause which will do this.
Is there any other way or workaround?I looked at Serverprocess' sql*loader script and did not see how that would answer your question - how to raise an error if the file has more than 2 columns. If I missed something can Serverprocess explain?
I can't think of a direct way to do this with your external table either, but there may be indirect ways. Some brainstorming ideas of perhaps dubious usefulness follow.
Placing a view over the external table can limit results to the first two columns but won't raise an error.
A pipelined function can read the external table, check for data where there shouldn't be any, and raise an exception when you find data in columns where there should not be any.
Similarly, you could ditch the external table and use utl_file to read the file, manually parsing and checking the data. LOTS more work but more control on your end. External tables are much easer to use :(
Or, first load the external table into a work table before the "real" select. Check the work table for the offending data programatically and raise an error if data is where it should not be. You could keep the existing external table and not have to do a lot of recoding.
Or, also load the data into an otherwise unneeded global temporary table first. Use a trigger on the load to look for the unwanted data and raise an error if offending data is there
These ideas are boiling down to variations on validating the data before you use it.
Good luck!

How to transform data while populating an external table

Hi Folks,
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create table T_XT
(PNODE VARCHAR2(10),
NODE VARCHAR2(15),
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NODE_COUNT NUMBER,
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organization external
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default DIRECTORY topology
access parameters
(records delimited by NEWLINE
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Hi,
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:6790030213850#59876418675556
You'd rather just:
select pnode,
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Error while creating oracle external table

I am trying to create an external table with the following syntax. WhenI have executed this statement in my server which running in my machine, it is working fine. Whine I try to run the same statement on different server, it is giving the below error. I have verified the grants on both the schemas, they are simillar.
create table ext_ORGBASIC_CLIENT1(
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Parent_Organization varchar2(1000),
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Organization_Name varchar2(1000),
Legal_Entity varchar2(1000),
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Require_Entity_Use__as_Matchin varchar2(1000),
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Good_Service_Category_Code varchar2(1000),
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access parameters ( records delimited by newline characterset US7ASCII load
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fields terminated by ',' optionally enclosed by '"' lrtrim missing field values are null
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parallel reject limit unlimited
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External tables

Hi All,
I am using oracle 8i and while creating the external table I am getting the below error:
12:50:20 SQL> CREATE TABLE ext_tab (
12:51:13 2 empno CHAR(4),
12:51:13 3 ename CHAR(20),
12:51:13 4 job CHAR(20),
12:51:13 5 deptno CHAR(2))
12:51:13 6 ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
12:51:13 7 (TYPE oracle_loader
12:51:13 8 DEFAULT DIRECTORY ext
12:51:13 9 ACCESS PARAMETERS
12:51:13 10 (FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
12:51:13 11 MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
12:51:13 12 (empno, ename, job, deptno))
12:51:13 13 LOCATION ('demo1.dat','demo2.dat'))
12:51:13 14 PARALLEL
12:51:13 15 REJECT LIMIT 0;
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
ERROR at line 6:
ORA-00922: missing or invalid option
Please help me. I am able to create in 9i and 10g with out any issues.
Bhargava.

I am able to create in 9i and 10g with out any issuesYes, External tables were a new feature in 9i, 8i does not have them.

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