External table causing error on count(*)

Question

I created an external table, when i do count(*) from the table
it is giving me the error :
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEFETCH callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04018: partial record at end of file
here is my definition for the file :
CREATE TABLE ext_tab
TYPEVENDORCODE VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
VENDORCODE VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
WRKCODEWRKDONEFHA VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
FILLER4 VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
TYPECODEVENDOR VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
FILLER6 VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
FILLER7 VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
TYPE VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
FILLER9 VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
COST VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
PHOTOS VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
SUBJECTTODISCOUNT VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
FHAREGION VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
AVERAGECOST VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
FILLER15 VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
FILLER16 VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
FILLER17 VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
( TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY dir1
ACCESS PARAMETERS
( RECORDS FIXED 512
SKIP 1
READSIZE 3840000
BADFILE 'STG0_FILE71_EXT.BAD'
LOGFILE 'STG0_FILE71_EXT.LOG'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY 0x'0A'
NOTRIM
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
typevendorcode CHAR(4000),
vendorcode CHAR(4000),
wrkcodewrkdonefha CHAR(4000),
filler4 CHAR(4000),
typecodevendor CHAR(4000),
filler6 CHAR(4000),
filler7 CHAR(4000),
type CHAR(4000),
filler9 CHAR(4000),
cost CHAR(4000),
photos CHAR(4000),
subjecttodiscount CHAR(4000),
fharegion CHAR(4000),
averagecost CHAR(4000),
filler15 CHAR(4000),
filler16 CHAR(4000),
filler17 CHAR(4000)
LOCATION (dir1:'abc.DAT.raw')
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED
NOPARALLEL
NOMONITORING;
any thoughts?
billu

Answer 1

I don't think there is any way to modify your table definition to accommodate the (apparent) fact that missing values generate nothing in the file you want to load.
It seems that you are saying that the format of the file is not actually fixed in any way, that is has some, but not all values, and that mising values are just skipped.
Assuming for a moment that the fields are delimited bt a pipe symbol (|) then it seems to me that you have this situation :
Defined file format:
ID|name|age|addresswhich would imply the file should look like:
123|John|42|123 MainSt.
456|Fred|39|45 Pine St.but sometimes you get:
12345|27|12 Elm St.If this is the case, there is no possible way that the file can be reliably parsed since there is no consistnet format. If field values could be missing, you need to get whoever generates the file to do something more like:
12345||27|12 Elm St.That is, put in the field delimiters even if there is no value for the field.
John