External Table Query

Question

Hi
I created a table and created directory and gave grant permission to that directroy for read/write and able to create an external table but when trying to query the same iam getting the below error.
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 CREATE TABLE text_ext (city VARCHAR2(30),
2 country VARCHAR2(30),
3 population NUMBER)
4 ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
5 (TYPE oracle_loader
6 DEFAULT DIRECTORY MV_DATA_EXTRACT
7 ACCESS PARAMETERS(records delimited BY newline
8 badfile 'test.bad'
9 logfile 'test.log'
10 fields terminated by ','
11 optionally enclosed by '"'
12 missing field values are null
13 )
14 location ('foo.dat')
15* )
SQL> /
Table created.
SQL> select * from pop_ext;
select * from pop_ext
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
error opening file C:\Xtern_data\mv_data_extract/test.log
could you please advice.
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

user10991018 wrote:
Hi
I created a table and created directory and gave grant permission to that directroy for read/write and able to create an external table but when trying to query the same iam getting the below error.
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 CREATE TABLE text_ext (city VARCHAR2(30),
2 country VARCHAR2(30),
3 population NUMBER)
4 ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
5 (TYPE oracle_loader
6 DEFAULT DIRECTORY MV_DATA_EXTRACT
7 ACCESS PARAMETERS(records delimited BY newline
8 badfile 'test.bad'
9 logfile 'test.log'
10 fields terminated by ','
11 optionally enclosed by '"'
12 missing field values are null
13 )
14 location ('foo.dat')
15* )
SQL> /
Table created.
SQL> select * from pop_ext;
select * from pop_ext
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
error opening file C:\Xtern_data\mv_data_extract/test.log
could you please advice.
thanks in advance.First, you are not showing us something. You created table TEXT_EXT, but you are selecting from table POP_EXT.
The error is pretty clear, it can't open file 'C:\Xtern_data\mv_data_extract/test.log'. This is obvously Windows. What's with the *forward* slash (between 'extract' and 'test.log') in the file spec?