ETL date problem OWB

Question

I have a problem loading a date. The textfile i need to load contains a date in the format 21-12-2007 21:30. The format is then DD-MM-YYYY HH24:MI. Then you run your ctl and it only loads 21-12-2007 into your colunm of your table, thats correct but i miss my time.
Can someone help me?

Answer 1

You can try to insert the values using External Tables. Here is an example to create one external table. And you can use it directly into your OWB maps, with joins, also.
Create Directory first:
create or replace directory TXT_LOCATION as 'complete_path';
Create External Table:
CREATE TABLE testowb
(ACCT_UNIT           VARCHAR2(7),
AU_DESCRIPTION          VARCHAR2(40),
ACTIVITY               VARCHAR2(40),
ACTIVITY_DESCRIPTION     VARCHAR2(40),
ACTIVITY_GRP          VARCHAR2(40),
ACT_GRP_DESCRIPTION     VARCHAR2(40),
BEGIN_DATE          DATE,
END_DATE          DATE)
ORGANIZATION external
(TYPE oracle_loader
DEFAULT DIRECTORY TXT_LOCATION
ACCESS PARAMETERS
(RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
BADFILE 'testewb.bad'
LOGFILE 'testewb.log'
READSIZE 1048576
SKIP 1
FIELDS TERMINATED BY X'09' LDRTRIM
REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
(ACCT_UNIT           CHAR,
AU_DESCRIPTION     CHAR ,
ACTIVITY           CHAR ,
ACTIVITY_DESCRIPTION      CHAR ,
ACTIVITY_GRP          CHAR ,
ACT_GRP_DESCRIPTION     CHAR ,
BEGIN_DATE          DATE MASK "DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS" ,
END_DATE           DATE MASK "DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS"
location
('testewb.txt')
)REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
FIELDS TERMINATED BY X'09' LDRTRIM tells us that the fields is terminated by tabulation, otherwise comma (','). It is usefull when into the fields we find information separeted by comma (',').
Your question is answered in the fields BEGIN_DATE and END_DATE with DATE MASK.
Hope to help,
Gustavo