DATE format problem, migrating from Sybase to Oracle 9i

Hi,
We are in a process of migrating the database from Sybase to Oracle 9i, everything going fine except the data load of couple of tables.
The workbench created the control file, data & related files to load the data into Oracle using the SQL*LOADER.
But coule of data files having HH:MI:SS:xxx AM in the DATE field, which Oracle is failing while laoding the workbeck created the destination table with the column data type = DATE, so how to insert the milliseconds along the date like Mar 25 2004 12:00:00:000 AM
Thanks
Ramana
212-657-0104

In your control file for SQL*Loader, specify the timestamp with format like "Mon DD yyy hh:mi:ss:ff3AM".

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