How to populate a table by sending a csv attachment to a particular mail id

Question

Hi Experts,
I have to populate a table in the database by sending a csv attachment to a particular mail id.
Eg:
I have a table , test
with fields: name, designation, address
and i am sending a csv attachemnt with the values , name, designation, address to a generic email id say : [email protected]
my table -test should be populated automatically with the values from the attached csv.
Any idea how this can be achieved ?
Regards,
Archana

Answer 1

Hi,
Why cant you try uploading the data in your csv file to your table by using external table concepts? This would help you much i beleive.
  CREATE TABLE "EXT_EMP_TEST"
   (     "EMPNO" NUMBER,
     "EMPNAME" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE),
     "JOB" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE)
   ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
    ( TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
      DEFAULT DIRECTORY "DUMP_DIR"
      ACCESS PARAMETERS
      ( RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
           BADFILE 'emp.bad'
                      LOGFILE 't.log_xt'               
                      FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY ' " ' LDRTRIM
                      REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
            "EMPNO",
          "EMPNAME",
          "JOB"                                                                         
      LOCATION
       ( 'emp_det.dat'
   REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
{code}
In the above code, default directory is the place where the file resides in your server. So before creating an external table you need to follow the below steps,
1. Create a default directory.
2. Place your file into that directory.
3. Create an external table using the above script.
4. Just execute the simple select statement upon that external table, {code} select * from EXT_EMP_TEST {code}
*NOTE: In the above exaple i have used .dat file to load the data, you need to specify .csv over there*
Regards,
Sakthi.