External Table Error

Question

While Creating an external table I got following error
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-00554: error encountered while parsing access parameters
KUP-01005: syntax error: found "missing": expecting one of: "badfile, byteordermark, characterset, column, data, delimited, discardfile, disable_directory_link_check, exit, fields, fixed, load, logfile, language, nodiscardfile, nobadfile, nologfile, date_cache, processing, readsize, string, skip, territory, varia¿gÀ"
KUP-01007: at line 2 column 14
ORA-06512: at
My CREATE TABLE Syntax is as follow
CREATE TABLE APPL_NOTE_EXT
CUS_ID NUMBER(10),
TEXT VARCHAR2(2000 ),
PAGE_NUM NUMBER(3)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
( TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY EXT_TABLE
ACCESS PARAMETERS
RECORDS DELIMITED BY newline
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
FIELDS
CUS_ID POSITION (2:10) ,
TEXT POSITION (39:1737),
PAGE_NUM POSITION (13:14)
LOCATION ('APPNOTES.TXT')
REJECT LIMIT Unlimited
NOPARALLEL
NOMONITORING;

Answer 1

This is the result I obtained after creating the table with your script:
Table created.
SQL> desc APPL_NOTE_EXT
Name                                      Null?    Type
CUS_ID                                             NUMBER(10)
TEXT                                               VARCHAR2(2000)
PAGE_NUM                                           NUMBER(3)The only issue I faced was the directory object. I had to create it. May be you don't have privileges on the specified ext_table directory. Please verify.
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