Create an external table based on an XML file

Hi ,
I am trying to create an external table based on XML file .Is it possible to do in OWB ?If Yes .Can someone please let me know the same .
I was successfully able to create an external table based on a flat file which is of the extension *.txt.
I was even able to load an XML file to a normal
table .How do we do it to an external table?
Thanks,
Manjula

Hello Manjula,
Is it possible for you to spare sometime to list down the steps to be followed for creating External Table using flat file *.txt?
I am trying to do it but not getting through it.
Thanks in Advance,
Ripesh

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where TEST_DIR is the directory where myfile.xml is stored,
but I get this message:
Error at Command Line:3 Column:4
Error report:
SQL Error: ORA-30656: column type not supported on external organized table
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I want to have in the XML_DATA_COLUMN the content of myfile.xml so as to handle it by using extract and extractvalue functions.
My oracle version is 10gR2 Express Edition
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Jay wrote:
using oracle 10g
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For some reason, I always received the following error whenever I attempt to create an
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2 product_no number,
3 description varchar2(100),
4 price varchar2(20)
5 )
6 organization EXTERNAL (
7 type oracle_loader
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12 logfile 'products.log'
13 fields terminated by ','
14 )
15 location ('products.csv')
16 )
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18 )
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Thanks and regards
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to merge 16 files having same structureWell, if files have the same structure, as per the reading of the example from the following documentation, you can create one external table for all your files :
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DEPARTAMENTO VARCHAR(300) NULLIF DEPARTAMENTO=BLANKS
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==========================
"0","DOUGLAS","AUGUSTO","ABBOTT","","1","3672097"
"0101190600010","MARIA","URBANA","GOMEZ","URBINA","2","1949122"
"0101190600076","ENRIQUETA","","GARCIA","","2","1162025"
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Hi
Here we go...
I reduced the 300 length of varcahr t o30 for testing purpose...
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2 (
3 NUMERO_ID VARCHAR2(30),
4 PRIMER_NOMBRE VARCHAR2(30),
5 SEGUNDO_NOMBRE VARCHAR2(30),
6 APELLIDO_PATERNO VARCHAR2(30),
7 APELLIDO_MATERNO VARCHAR2(30),
8 DEPARTAMENTO VARCHAR2(30),
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17 logfile LOg:'censo.log'
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22 NUMERO_ID ,
23 PRIMER_NOMBRE ,
24 SEGUNDO_NOMBRE ,
25 APELLIDO_PATERNO,
26 APELLIDO_MATERNO ,
27 DEPARTAMENTO,
28 CORRELATIVO
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32 )
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34 NOPARALLEL
35 NOMONITORING;
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Name Null? Type
NUMERO_ID VARCHAR2(30)
PRIMER_NOMBRE VARCHAR2(30)
SEGUNDO_NOMBRE VARCHAR2(30)
APELLIDO_PATERNO VARCHAR2(30)
APELLIDO_MATERNO VARCHAR2(30)
DEPARTAMENTO VARCHAR2(30)
CORRELATIVO VARCHAR2(30)
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NUMERO_ID
0
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