External tables (Urgent)

I can not use External tables as it has restriction of 1000 columns...My File has more then 3000 fields
So I am Using Multiple tables.But the way sql loader control file is written , For one record in Datafile it creates 1 record in one table but multiple records in other table...So there one to many relationship in two tables...
So I don't know how to use external tables if Its NOT 1-1 realtion ship....
and it is 1-Many relationship
Example
Flat File Structure
LAST FIRST AGE SKILL-1 SKILL-2 SKILL-3 SKILL-4 SKILL-5 --Upto 3000 Fields
JOHN INTERPID 23 COMPUTER MECHANICAL CHEMICAL ELECTRICAL CIVIL
SMITH GREAT 31 ELECTRINICS MECHANICAL CIVIL CHEMICAL
......Upto 200,000 records
Table1_DEMOGRAPHIC
LAST_NAME FIRST_NAME AGE
JOHN INTERPID 23
SMITH GREAT 31
Table2
LAST_NAME FIRST_NAME SKILL
JOHN INTERPID COMPUTER
JOHN INTERPID MECHANICAL
JOHN INTERPID CHEMICAL
JOHN INTERPID ELECTRICAL
JOHN INTERPID CIVIL
SMITH GREAT ELECTRINICS
SMITH GREAT MECHANICAL
SMITH GREAT CIVIL
SMITH GREAT CHEMICAL

That's what I mean: use 3 different external tables that read the file. And then use SQL to query the external tables within your pl/sql procedure
So if you're file looks like:
NR, column1, column2, ...., column1001, column1002, ... column2001, column1002,...
, where NR is a column that uniquely identifies the row, you would have an external table to read
NR, column1, column2,..., column999
And one that would read
NR, column1000, column1001,..., column1999
And one that would read
NR, column2000, column2001,..., column2999
etc.
Then you could join those tables using plain SQL based on the NR column and process it in a PL/Sql procedure.
Regards,
Martien

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