External Table Load KUP-04037 Error

I was asked to repost this here. This was a follow on question to this thread how to load special characters (diacritics) in the Exort/Import/SQL Loader/External Table Forum.
I've defined an external table and on my one instance running the WE8MSWIN1252 character set everything works fine. On my other instance running AL32UTF8 I get the KUP-04037 error, terminator not found on the field that has "à" (the letter a with a grave accent). Changing it to a standard "a" works avoids the error. Changing the column definition in the external table to nvarchar2 does NOT help.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks,
Bob Siegel

Exactly. If you do not specify the CHARACTERSET parameter, the database character set is used to interpret the input file. As the input file is in WE8MSWIN1252, the ORACLE_LOADER driver gets confused trying to interpret single-byte WE8MSWIN1252 codes as multibyte AL32UTF8 codes.
The character set of the input file depends on the way it was created. Even on US Windows, you can create text files in different encodings. Notepad allows you to save the file in ANSI code page (=WE8MSWIN1252 on US Windows), Unicode (=AL16UTF16LE), Unicode big endian (=AL16UTF16), and UTF-8 (=AL32UTF8). The Command Prompt edit.exe editor saves the files in the OEM code page (=US8PC437 on US Windows).
-- Sergiusz

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prc_prem_lc_2 VARCHAR2(22),
prc_prem_lc_3 VARCHAR2(22),
prc_eff_fm_dt VARCHAR2(30),
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prc_cr_uid VARCHAR2(12),
prc_rate_eft VARCHAR2(12),
prc_terrorism_yn VARCHAR2(1),
prc_lvl VARCHAR2(12),
prc_tot_si_fc VARCHAR2(22),
prc_first_loss_perc VARCHAR2(22),
prc_flxi_risk_cover_desc VARCHAR2(2000),
prc_rec_type VARCHAR2(1)
organization external
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CHANDAN,0,1001,1,,1004,TPPropertyDamage,2.00000,100.00000,C,0,001,001,10000.000,10000.000,10000.000,10000.000,200.000,200.000,200.000,200.000,14-Feb-13 11:10:39,13-Feb-14 23:59:00,1,0,0,MMI,,0,F,0.000,,,N
CHANDAN,0,1001,1,,1005,RoadSideAssistance,1.50000,100.00000,C,0,001,001,15000.000,15000.000,15000.000,15000.000,225.000,225.000,225.000,225.000,14-Feb-13 11:10:39,13-Feb-14 23:59:00,1,0,0,MMI,,0,F,0.000,,,N
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External Table and Direct path load

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Message was edited by:
Deep

Thanx to all for your suggestions.
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(COL1 CHAR(20),     COL2 CHAR(2),     COL3 CHAR(20),     COL4 CHAR(400),
     COL5 CHAR(20),     COL6 CHAR(400),     COL7 CHAR(20),     COL8 CHAR(20),
     COL9 CHAR(400),     COL10 CHAR(400))
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
(TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY EXT_TAB_DIR
ACCESS PARAMETERS
(RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
LOCATION ('LOGZ3.DAT')
REJECT LIMIT 10;
for loading i did:
INSERT INTO LOG_TBL (COL1, COL2, COL3, COL4,COL5, COL6,
COL7, COL8, COL9, COL10)
(SELECT COL1, COL2, COL3, COL4, COL5, COL6, COL7, COL8,
COL9, COL10 FROM LOG_TBL_load_1);
for direct path my control file is like this:
OPTIONS (
DIRECT = TRUE
LOAD DATA
INFILE 'F:\DATAFILES\LOGZ3.DAT' "str '\n'"
INTO TABLE LOG_TBL
APPEND
FIELDS TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
(COL1 CHAR(20),
COL2 CHAR(2),
COL3 CHAR(20),
COL4 CHAR(400),
COL5 CHAR(20),
COL6 CHAR(400),
COL7 CHAR(20),
COL8 CHAR(20),
COL9 CHAR(400),
COL10 CHAR(400))
and ya, i have used same table in both the situations. after loading once i used to truncate my table, LOG_TBL. i used the same source file, LOGZ3.DAT.
my tablespace USERS is loaclly managed.
thanks

While loading through External Tables, Japanese characters wrong load

Hi all,
I am loading a text file through External Tables. While loading, japanese characters are loading as junk characters. In text file, the characters are showing correctly.
My spool file
SET ECHO OFF
SET VERIFY OFF
SET Heading OFF
SET LINESIZE 600
SET NEWPAGE NONE
SET PAGESIZE 100
SET feed off
set trimspool on
spool c:\SYS_LOC_LOGIC.txt
select CAR_MODEL_CD||',' || MAKER_CODE||',' || CAR_MODEL_NAME_CD||',' || TYPE_SPECIFY_NO||',' ||
     CATEGORY_CLASS_NO||',' || SPECIFICATION||',' || DOOR_NUMBER||',' || RECOGNITION_TYPE||',' ||
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from Table where rownum < 100;
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My External table load script
CREATE TABLE SYS_LOC_LOGIC
     CAR_MODEL_CD                         NUMBER               ,
     MAKER_CODE                              NUMBER,
     CAR_MODEL_NAME_CD                    NUMBER,
     TYPE_SPECIFY_NO                         NUMBER               ,
     CATEGORY_CLASS_NO                    NUMBER               ,
     SPECIFICATION                         VARCHAR2(300),
     DOOR_NUMBER                              NUMBER,
     RECOGNITION_TYPE                    VARCHAR2(30),
     SALES_START                          DATE ,
     SALES_END                               DATE ,
     LOGIC                                   NUMBER,
     LOGIC_DESCRIPTION                    VARCHAR2(100)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY XMLTEST1
ACCESS PARAMETERS
RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
                    CAR_MODEL_CD,MAKER_CODE,CAR_MODEL_NAME_CD,TYPE_SPECIFY_NO,
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How to solve this.
Thanks in advance,
Pal

Just so I'm clear, user1 connects to the database server and runs the spool to generate a flat file from the database. User2 then uses that flat file to load that data back in to the same database? If the data isn't going anywhere, I assume there is a good reason to jump through all these unload and reload hoops rather than just moving the data from one table to another...
What is the NLS_LANG set in the client's environment when the spool is generated? Note that the NLS_CHARACTERSET is a database setting, not a client setting.
What character set is the text file? Are you certain that the text file is UTF-8 encoded? And not encoded using the operating system's local code page (assuming the operating system is capable of displaying Japanese text)
There is a CHARACTERSET parameter for the external table definition, but that should default to the character set of the database.
Justin

External tables on ACFS

hi
I use Windows 2008R2 Std. and Oracle 11gR2 RAC
I have successfully mounted ACFS share
ASMCMD> volinfo -a
Diskgroup Name: SHARED
Volume Name: SHARED_ACFS
Volume Device: \\.\asm-shared_acfs-106
State: ENABLED
Size (MB): 8192
Resize Unit (MB): 256
Redundancy: UNPROT
Stripe Columns: 4
Stripe Width (K): 128
Usage: ACFS
Mountpath: C:\SHARED
I have created directory in Oracle mapped onto ACFS share
and granted read,write access to it to my user
Then I created external table with success BUT...
though I see metadata
ADM@proton22> desc t111;
Name Null? Type
NAME VARCHAR2(4000)
VALUE VARCHAR2(4000)
I got error:
ADM@proton22> select * from t111;
select * from t111
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04027: file name check failed: C:\SHARED\EXTTAB\EXT_PARAM.log
How to cope with this?
I granted "full control" privileges to "everyone" user at OS level with no avail.
Edited by: g777 on 2011-06-01 13:47
SORRY, I MOVED TO RAC FORUM.

See "Bug 14045247 : KUP-04027 ERROR WHEN QUERY DATA FROM EXTERNAL TABLE ON ACFS" in MOS.
This is actually reported as not being a Bug:
"An ACFS directory on the MS-Windows platform is implemented as a JUNCTION,and is therefore a symbolic link. Therefore, DISABLE_DIRECTORY_LINK_CHECK needs to be used, or a non-ACFS directory."
i.e. when creating the External Table, the DISABLE_DIRECTORY_LINK_CHECK Clause must be used if using the ORACLE_LOADER Access Driver
e.g. CREATE TABLE ...
... ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
(TYPE ORACLE_LOADER ... ACCESS PARAMETERS (RECORDS ... DISABLE_DIRECTORY_LINK_CHECK)
For full syntax see: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e22490/et_params.htm
Also note Security Implications mentioned in above documentation:
"Use of this parameter involves security risks because symbolic links can potentially be used to redirect the input/output of the external table load operation"

External Table Load KUP-04037 Error

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