External table no data

Question

I created an external table with no errors, but when I try to issue sql on that external table there is no data. Here's a sub-set of my data and the sql used to create the external table. 10.2.0.2 on aix 5.2 64bit.
"BoxC_SL.lwl"|106|"tzdpship52"|1|1|1/28/2008 0:00:00|12/30/1899 9:56:03|||||
"Genshp_SL.lwl"|106|"tzdpship52"|1|1|1/28/2008 0:00:00|12/30/1899 9:56:04|||||
"TRLAB-001B_600.lwl"|126|"\\Ibm1\tzsgprod63"|2|1|1/28/2008 0:00:00|12/30/1899 9:56:08|"14928758"|"89-5425.04"|||
"PalC_SL.lwl"|106|"tzdpship52"|1|1|1/28/2008 0:00:00|12/30/1899 9:56:11|||||
"SSCC_SL.lwl"|106|"tzdpship52"|1|1|1/28/2008 0:00:00|12/30/1899 9:56:12|||||
CREATE TABLE "DMR"."LABELS"
( "LABEL_NAME" VARCHAR2(100),
"PRINTER_NUM" NUMBER,
"PRINTER_NAME" VARCHAR2(100),
"QTY" NUMBER,
"DUPLICATES" NUMBER,
"PRINT_DATE" DATE,
"PRINT_TIME" TIMESTAMP,
"LOT" NUMBER,
"PART" VARCHAR(25),
"BATCH" VARCHAR(25),
"WONUM" NUMBER,
"ITEM" VARCHAR(25)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
( TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY "LISTENER_LOG_DIR"
ACCESS PARAMETERS
( records delimited by newline
nobadfile
nologfile
nodiscardfile
fields terminated by "|" lrtrim
missing field values are null
label_name,
printer_num,
printer_name,
qty,
duplicates,
print_date char(8) date_format
date mask "MM/DD/YY",
print_time char(8) date_format
date mask "HH24:MI:SS",
lot,
part,
batch,
wonum,
item
LOCATION
( 'AUDIT_001.txt'
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
Table created.
sys@DMRDEV> select * from dmr.labels where rownum < 10;
no rows selected
sys@DMRDEV> select count(*) from dmr.labels;
COUNT(*)
0

Answer 1

Hi,
Here we go
SQL&gt; drop table t11;
Table dropped.
SQL&gt;
SQL&gt; create table t11 (
2 "LABEL_NAME" VARCHAR2(20),
3 "PRINTER_NUM" NUMBER,
4 "PRINTER_NAME" VARCHAR2(20),
5 "QTY" NUMBER,
6 "DUPLICATES" NUMBER,
7 "PRINT_DATE" date,
8 "PRINT_TIME" TIMESTAMP,
9 "LOT" NUMBER,
10 "PART" VARCHAR(25),
11 "BATCH" VARCHAR(25),
12 "WONUM" NUMBER,
13 "ITEM" VARCHAR(25)
14 )
15 organization external (
16 type oracle_loader
17 default directory LISTENER_LOG_DIR
18 access parameters (
19 records delimited by 0x'0a'
20 fields terminated by "|" optionally enclosed by '"'
21 missing field values are null
22 (
23 "LABEL_NAME" ,
24 "PRINTER_NUM" ,
25 "PRINTER_NAME" ,
26 "QTY" ,
27 "DUPLICATES" ,
28 "PRINT_DATE" DATE "MM/DD/YYYY",
29 "PRINT_TIME" char(25) DATE_FORMAT timestamp mask "MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS",
30 "LOT" ,
31 "PART" ,
32 "BATCH" ,
33 "WONUM" ,
34 "ITEM"
35 )
36 )
37 location ('holidays.txt')
38 )
39 reject limit unlimited;
Table created.
SQL&gt;
I am displaying the count only since you can query select * from t11 and check.. :-)
SQL&gt; select count(*) from t11;
COUNT(*)
5
Modify the data like this :- remove *""*
BoxC_SL.lwl|106|tzdpship52|1|1|01/5/2008|12/30/1899 9:56:03|||||
Genshp_SL.lwl|106|tzdpship52|1|1|01/28/2008|12/30/1899 9:56:04|||||
PalC_SL.lwl|106|tzdpship52|1|1|1/28/2008|12/30/1899 9:56:11|||||
SSCC_SL.lwl|106|tzdpship52|1|1|1/28/2008|12/30/1899 9:56:12|||||
TRLAB-001B_600.lwl|126|\\Ibm1\tzsgprod63|2|1|1/28/2008|12/30/1899 9:56:08|14928758|89-5425.04|||
Satisfied... Answered question correctly.. ;-)
- Pavan Kumar