Doubt in external table.

I want to read the csv file and load into oracle table.But I am getting file with filename_<today date> for every day.
Is it possible to use single External table to read file in dynamic.
or what is the best way to do this?
My oracle version 10g in windows OS.
Thanks in advance,

>
I want to read the csv file and load into oracle table.But I am getting file with filename_<today date> for every day.
Is it possible to use single External table to read file in dynamic.
>
Yes - it is possible. You need to issue an ALTER TABLE command to provide the new filename before you SELECT from the table.
alter table myExternalTable location ('myNewFileName.ext'); See the Location of Datafiles and Output Files section of Chapter 12 External Tables Concepts in the Utilities doc
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28319/et_concepts.htm#i1009094
Also see the Altering External Tables section of Managing External Tables in the DBA Guide
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14072_01/server.112/e10595/tables013.htm
That sections has examples for all of the ALTER statements you can use. For example you can also alter the DIRECTORY object being used.
ALTER TABLE admin_ext_employees
DEFAULT DIRECTORY admin_dat2_dir;

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7 S_QTY NUMBER,
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16 S_O VARCHAR2(20),
17 S_CLIENTOWN VARCHAR2(10),
18 S_ISIN VARCHAR2(12),
19 S_ORDER_TIME TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
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23 DEFAULT DIRECTORY BSE17122007
24 ACCESS PARAMETERS
25 (RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
26 FIELDS
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28 S_A CHAR(20),
29 S_TYPE CHAR(20),
30 S_CO CHAR(20),
31 S_CONAME CHAR(20),
32 S_RATE CHAR(20),
33 S_QTY CHAR(20),
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Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Prod
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
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SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.4.2 - Production on Sat Jul 30 12:04:24 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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12      MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
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16        country_language CHAR(50)
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19    LOCATION ('Countries1.txt')
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English
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English
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EGMARKETCLASS VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
EGSKU VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
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EGQUOTENUMBER VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
EGACCOUNTTYPE VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
EGFINANCIALENTITY VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
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EGFINANCIALENTITYCODE VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
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EGBUYINGGROUP VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
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EGRESTOCKINGCHARGES NUMBER,
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EGBUYINGGROUPREBATES NUMBER,
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EGOTHERCREDITS NUMBER,
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from TABCASER, TABCASER1, EVCASERS
where ...-- join and other conditions
1. greatest is good enough
2. to_date creates date dataype from string with the format of format string ('mm/dd/yyyy')
3. decode(a, b, c, d) is a function: if a = b than return c else d. NULL means that there is no data in the cell of the table.
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http://www.trendo-kft.hu

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D:\Oracle\Middleware\instances\instance1\config\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1
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<DisableAutoPreview>false</DisableAutoPreview>
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hi
I have an issue regarding reports. I have a query having 4 fields from external table and remaining from db tables. the report query returns all the fields from the db tables and only 2 fields from external table. but the same query if I tried in plsql developer it returns all the fields values.
Can anyone please help me in this issue.
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Using Oracle 10.2.0.5
An external table is a construct that gives me SQL access to a file.
Is it possible to know the name of the file somehow inside the select? Like Add a column with the file name?
pseudo example
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    "COL1" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE),
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;The result could look like this:
RECORDTYPE   COL1       COL2      FILE
SAMPLE           DUMMY    DUMMY Testfile1.txt
SAMPLE           DUMMY1   DUMMY Testfile1.txt
SAMPLE           DUMMY2   DUMMY Testfile1.txt
SAMPLE           DUMMY3   DUMMY Testfile1.txt
SAMPLE           DUMMY1   DUMMY1 Testfile2.txt
SAMPLE           DUMMY1   DUMMY2 Testfile2.txt
SAMPLE           DUMMY2   DUMMY1 Testfile2.txtI would like to know from which file a certain row is read. Maybe I missed an option in the documentation. In this example I have two different files as the source for the external table.
Another use case could be this:
If I enable a user to switch the external table to a different file alter table EXT_DUMMY location ('Testfile3.txt' ). How can we know which file is read during the select on the table? When userA does the select, maybe userB just altered the location before the select was started. Therefore userA would read in a different file then expected.
Edited by: Sven W. on May 26, 2011 4:48 PM
Edited by: Sven W. on May 26, 2011 4:51 PM
Edited by: Sven W. on May 26, 2011 5:11 PM

Hi Sven,
I'm not sure how much we can rely on this, but let's consider the following :
create table test_xt (
rec_id number
, message varchar2(100)
organization external (
default directory test_dir
access parameters (
    records delimited by newline
    fields terminated by ';'
location (
    'marc5.txt'
, 'test1.csv'
, 'test2.csv'
, 'test3.csv'
);I always thought the ROWID doesn't hold much sense for an external table, but...
SQL> select t.rowid
2       , dump(t.rowid) as rowid_dump
3       , regexp_substr(dump(t.rowid,10,9,1),'\d+$') as file#
4       , t.*
5 from test_xt t
6 ;
ROWID              ROWID_DUMP                                                FILE#      REC_ID MESSAGE
(AADVyAAAAAAAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0     0               1 this is a line from marc5.txt
(AADVyAAAAAAAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,33    0               2 this is a line from marc5.txt
(AADVyAAAAAAAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,66    0               3 this is a line from marc5.txt
(AADVyAAAAAAAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,99    0               4 this is a line from marc5.txt
(AADVyAAAAAEAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0     1               1 this is a line from test1.csv
(AADVyAAAAAEAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,33    1               2 this is a line from test1.csv
(AADVyAAAAAEAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,66    1               3 this is a line from test1.csv
(AADVyAAAAAEAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,99    1               4 this is a line from test1.csv
(AADVyAAAAAIAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0     2               1 this is a line from test2.csv
(AADVyAAAAAIAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,33    2               2 this is a line from test2.csv
(AADVyAAAAAIAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,66    2               3 this is a line from test2.csv
(AADVyAAAAAMAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0     3               1 this is a line from test3.csv
(AADVyAAAAAMAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,33    3               2 this is a line from test3.csv
(AADVyAAAAAMAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,66    3               3 this is a line from test3.csv
(AADVyAAAAAMAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,99    3               4 this is a line from test3.csv
(AADVyAAAAAMAAAAAA Typ=208 Len=17: 4,0,0,213,200,0,0,0,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,132   3               5 this is a line from test3.csv
16 rows selected
Then with a join to EXTERNAL_LOCATION$ :
SQL> with ext_loc as (
2    select position-1 as pos
3         , name as filename
4    from sys.external_location$
5    where obj# = ( select object_id
6                   from user_objects
7                   where object_name = 'TEST_XT' )
8 )
9 select x.filename,
10         t.*
11 from test_xt t
12       join ext_loc x on x.pos = to_number(regexp_substr(dump(t.rowid,10,9,1),'\d+$'))
13 ;
FILENAME       REC_ID MESSAGE
marc5.txt           1 this is a line from marc5.txt
marc5.txt           2 this is a line from marc5.txt
marc5.txt           3 this is a line from marc5.txt
marc5.txt           4 this is a line from marc5.txt
test1.csv           1 this is a line from test1.csv
test1.csv           2 this is a line from test1.csv
test1.csv           3 this is a line from test1.csv
test1.csv           4 this is a line from test1.csv
test2.csv           1 this is a line from test2.csv
test2.csv           2 this is a line from test2.csv
test2.csv           3 this is a line from test2.csv
test3.csv           1 this is a line from test3.csv
test3.csv           2 this is a line from test3.csv
test3.csv           3 this is a line from test3.csv
test3.csv           4 this is a line from test3.csv
test3.csv           5 this is a line from test3.csv
Seems to work... assuming the files are always read in the order specified through the LOCATION parameter, and the generated ROWID actually means what I think it means.

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