SQL Loader and whitespace issues

Hello users,
I've got an issue that I know is breaking based on a comments field, which allows nearly every type of character in it.
Long story short, I'm trying to upload an Access table, turned to .csv file into Oracle via SQL Loader.
I'm able to do it if I delete or set the COMMENTS column to null before doing so.
If I try the option with the contents of this field populated, it blows up. I've got it terminated by a tilde in the control file, which the COMMENTS field does not contain at all, even with some 5.000+ records.
However, people upon entering comments have put many carriage returns in there. I noticed once I export the data to text or csv, then open in Excel, it shows the column breaking and spilling over into fields it shouldn't, thereby causing the big problem.
I've been searching but haven't found a way I can wrap these whitespaces or have SQL Loader ignore them.
I can't use TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE in the SQL Loader control file because that will cause the field to break without all the comments and I can't use optionally enclosed by " because these people have also used " in the COMMENTS field.
Do I have any option here, other than to brute force make an update query of some kind to manually populate the data? I can do that if I have to but i'd sure rather have all the data dump in via SQL Loader if I can.
Thanks!

Actually, it wasn't related to the size of the column. I made it like 3000, to hold 3000 characters, which was plenty.
But I used
PRESERVE BLANKS and then it worked fine!

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Hello Guys,
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Thu Nov 19 13:02:06 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Enter user-name:
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Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL>
0 rows updated.
Commit complete.
SQL> SQL> Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition
SQL> SQL> Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Thu Nov 19 17:32:58 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Enter user-name:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL>
0 rows updated.
Commit complete.
SQL> SQL> Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition
SQL> SQL> Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
+ [ 0 -ne 0 ]
Thu Nov 19 17:32:59 EST 2009Edited by: user10647455 on Nov 19, 2009 2:35 PM

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http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=204
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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SQL*Loader: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Apr 19 17:16:33 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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         4 Prod4           1
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Thanks for any thoughts - Peter

Thanks for the reply Harry. If I try to open the file in various text editors like Wordpad, Notepad, GVIM, andTextpad, they all display the foreign characters differently. Only Notepad comes close to displaying the characters properly. I have a C# app that will read the file and display the contents and it renders it fine. If you look at the directory of files in Windows Explorer, they all are displayed properly. So it seems things like .Net and Windows have some mechanism to understand the characters in order to render them properly. Other applications, again like Wordpad, do not know how to render them properly. It would seem that whatever SQL Loader is using to "read" the data files also is not rendering the characters properly which prevents it from finding the directory path to the file. If I add "CHARACTERSET AL32UTF8" in the control file, all is fine when dealing with Western langauges (ex, German, Spanish) but not for the Eastern languages (ex. Thai, Chinese). So .... telling SQL Loader to use a characterset seems to work, but not in all cases. The AL32UTF8 is the characterset that the Oracle database was created with. I have not had any luck if I try to set the CHARACTERSET to whatever the Thai character set is, for example. There problem there though is that even if that did work, I can't target specific lagauages because the data could come from anywhere. It's like I need some sort of global "super set" characterset to use. It seems like the CHARACTERSET is the right track to follow but I am not sure, and even if it is, is there a way to handle all languages.
Thanks - Peter

Use of SQL*Loader and Thin Client

I have a java application that is currently using the thin client. For portability issues, I am unable to use an OCI driver. My application also uses SQL*Loader.
My big issue is that The Thin client requires the HOST and SID for a connection.
But, for SQL*Loader to work in a client/server environment it needs to use the SERVICE_NAME and net8. Is there any way to have SQL*Loader use similar information that the thin client is using?
I know the right solution is to use the OCI drivers, but right now that is not feasible.
Thanks for any help in advance
Jeff McNurlan
Navigation Technologies.

I assume you are using an ObjectInputStream. Without seeing your code or a snippet I can't be certain...
The JDBC spec says the following about ObjectInputStream :
"An ObjectInputStream deserializes primitive data and objects previously written using an ObjectOutputStream"
Since there was nothing written by ObjectOutputStream, ObjectInputStream has nothing to deserialize and this exception would be raised.

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Hello,
Im receiving an sqlldr: not found error. Im getting ready to talk with our System Admin about the situation. Before I do I wanted to make sure that SQL Loader (sqlldr) is an available add-on for the Oracle 11 client. A co-worker mentioned that SQLLDR may not be available as an add-on in the Oracle 11 client and that we would need to use IMPORT/EXPORT instead. Is this a true statement?
Can someone please clarify these issues for me?
Thanks a bunch!

SQL*Loader is certainly available in either the 11.1 or 11.2 full client install. It may or may not be a component that is installed by default depending on the type of install you select during the installation process. But you can always go back and install that component.
If you are talking about the Instant Client, I'm not sure that either SQL*Loader or import and export work with the Instant Client.
And just to point it out, if you're using 11g, you would generally want to be using external tables rather than SQL*Loader.
Justin

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