External Table Number Format

Hi,
i am having an amount field in my input source file. The data type of that field is Number(13,4).
It is accepting the values 509.25, 34.43, etc.
But i am having the records having amount field values as 514,25.
OWB rejects such records as bad records.
But i need to include such records.
Do we have any number format mask as we have date format mask.

Hi,
you have several choices:
1.) Change the decimal split character from . to , for your database or your session.
2.) Change the data type to varchar2, replace the , with a . with an expression and then use the transformation to_number to convert it into a really number format.
3.) ...
Regards,
Detlef

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