External table issue.

Question

HI all,
--External table and bad table structures
CREATE TABLE EXT_APISEARCH_RESULT
    LINENUMBER       NUMBER(20,0),
    USERID           VARCHAR2(15 BYTE),
    NAMESPACE        CHAR(2 BYTE),
    ACCTNUM          VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),
    APC              VARCHAR2(50 BYTE),
    SESSIONID        VARCHAR2(65 BYTE),
    REQUESTDATETIME  VARCHAR2(19 BYTE),
    RESPONSEDATETIME VARCHAR2(19 BYTE),
    APITRANSNAME     VARCHAR2(50 BYTE),
    HDLNORGN         VARCHAR2(20 BYTE),
    ADDNLORGNDATA    VARCHAR2(250 BYTE),
    SRCHMODE         VARCHAR2(30 BYTE),
    SRCGENRE         VARCHAR2(1000 BYTE),
    PARTCODES        VARCHAR2(1000 BYTE),
    SEARCHLANGCODES  VARCHAR2(250 BYTE),
    SNIPPETTYPE      VARCHAR2(20 BYTE),
    BLACKLISTKEYWRDS VARCHAR2(1000 BYTE),
    CONTIND          VARCHAR2(5 BYTE),
    DATERANGE        VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),
    DAYSRANGE        VARCHAR2(50 BYTE),
    DUPLICATIONMODE  VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),
    SORTBY           VARCHAR2(50 BYTE),
    HDLNDISPREQ      VARCHAR2(50 BYTE),
    RSLTSOFFSET      VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),
    SUCCESSIND       VARCHAR2(2 BYTE),
    ERRORCODE        VARCHAR2(20 BYTE),
    RESPONSEFORMAT   VARCHAR2(50 BYTE),
    EPVALUE          VARCHAR2(3000 BYTE),
    APCU             VARCHAR2(20 BYTE),
    TOTALHDLNS       NUMBER(10,0),
    UNIQUEHDLNS      NUMBER(10,0),
    DUPHDLNS         NUMBER(10,0)
  ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
    TYPE ORACLE_LOADER DEFAULT DIRECTORY EXT_TAB_DIR ACCESS PARAMETERS ( RECORDS DELIMITED BY '\n' BADFILE 'EXT_TAB_DIR_LOG':'SEARCHRESULTAPI.BAD' LOGFILE 'EXT_TAB_DIR_LOG':'SEARCHRESULTAPI.LOG' DISCARDFILE 'EXT_TAB_DIR_LOG':'SEARCHRESULTAPI.DSC' FIELDS TERMINATED BY '#|#' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '#$'
  AND '$#' MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL( LINENUMBER, USERID, NAMESPACE, ACCTNUM, APC, SESSIONID, REQUESTDATETIME, RESPONSEDATETIME, APITRANSNAME, HDLNORGN, ADDNLORGNDATA, SRCHMODE, SRCGENRE CHAR(1000), PARTCODES CHAR(1000), SEARCHLANGCODES , SNIPPETTYPE, BLACKLISTKEYWRDS CHAR(1000), CONTIND, DATERANGE, DAYSRANGE, DUPLICATIONMODE, SORTBY, HDLNDISPREQ, RSLTSOFFSET, SUCCESSIND, ERRORCODE, RESPONSEFORMAT, EPVALUE CHAR(3000), APCU, TOTALHDLNS, UNIQUEHDLNS, DUPHDLNS ) ) LOCATION ( 'SEARCHRESULTAPI.dat' )
  REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
--DROP TABLE EXT_BAD_APISEARCH_RESULT; 
CREATE TABLE EXT_BAD_APISEARCH_RESULT
    BADRECORD VARCHAR2(1000 BYTE)
  ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
    TYPE ORACLE_LOADER DEFAULT DIRECTORY EXT_TAB_DIR_LOG ACCESS PARAMETERS ( RECORDS DELIMITED BY '\n' NOBADFILE NOLOGFILE NODISCARDFILE FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\n' MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL( BADRECORD CHAR(1000) ) ) LOCATION ( 'SEARCHRESULTAPI.BAD' )
  REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;Eventhough there is no space in the BAD file mentioned in the external table it is getting created with space. uDe to which BAD recorsd are not being moved to external bad table (2nd table) hence file processing is failing.
--Getting created with space.
'EXT_TAB_DIR_LOG':' SEARCHRESULTAPI.BAD'Please note that, external bad table is getting created without any space in the bad file mentioned.
Anything wrong with first table script ? Please let us know.
Thanks and Regards
Nagaraja akkivalli.
Edited by: Nagaraja Akkivalli on Jun 13, 2012 10:09 AM

Answer 1

Please do the following statements.
-- Execute the below statements.
create or replace directory EXT_TAB_DIR as '<Point to some location in server>';
create or replace directory EXT_TAB_DIR_LOG as '<Point to some location in server>';
Example:
create or replace directory EXT_TAB_DIR_LOG as '/var/factiva/ODS/log';
-- Perform the below steps.
1. Execute both create table statements mentioned above.
2. Once table's are created then click on the table from SqlDeveloper.
3. Next, click on SQl tab where we can see the create table statement.
Now, check the below part in the create table statement.
'EXT_TAB_DIR_LOG':' SEARCHRESULTAPI.BAD'There is space before SEARCHRESULTAPI.BAD.
My question is,
How did this space got inserted eventhogh there is no space in the create table statement ??
Please let me know if you are still not able to understand my question. I will re-phrase again.