External Table Question

I created the external table ext_sftm (see create statement below) and it worked until I added MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL.
Now when I run SELECT * FROM EXT_SFTM I get the following errors. [1]: (Error): ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout ORA-29400: data cartridge error KUP-00554: error encountered while parsing access parameters KUP-01005: syntax error: found "missing": expecting one of: "exit, (" KUP-01007: at line 10 column 5 ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 14 ORA-06512: at line 1
What am I doing wrong?
CREATE TABLE ext_sftm
(map_id NUMBER(38,0),
source_id NUMBER(38,0),
member_acis VARCHAR2(20),
source_facility_code VARCHAR2(50),
source_facility_name VARCHAR2(100),
source_facility_address VARCHAR2(40),
source_facility_city VARCHAR2(30),
source_facility_state CHAR(2),
source_facility_zip VARCHAR2(10),
source_name VARCHAR2(100))
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL (
DEFAULT DIRECTORY DCS_DIR
ACCESS PARAMETERS(RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1
BADFILE 'DCS_DIR':'SFTM.bad'
LOGFILE 'SFTM.log'
READSIZE 1048576
SKIP 1
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
LOCATION (
DCS_DIR:'SFTM.csv'
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED
/

According to Metalink note:
Subject:      Select from external table gives ORA-29913 ORA-29400 KUP-00554 KUP-01005
     Doc ID:      Note:302672.1      Type:      PROBLEM
     Last Revision Date:      22-APR-2005      Status:      MODERATED
This is an syntax error dues to wrong order of field definitions and record format info.
I suspect something wrong with this line:
REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDSSee following syntax diagram:
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/img_text/et_fields_clause.htm
Message was edited by:
Pierre Forstmann
Message was edited by:
Pierre Forstmann

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Here is my test. Although my class.dat file is empty, it shows that your external table should work once your file and directory is accessible. I have only replaced DATALOAD with mytest_dir
testdb@DBMSDIRECT01:/export/home/oracle/dbmsdirect/test:touch class.dat
testdb@DBMSDIRECT01:/export/home/oracle/dbmsdirect/test:sqlplus /nolog
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Mon May 19 15:34:55 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
SQL> connect testuser
Enter password:
Connected.
SQL> create or replace directory mytest_dir as '/export/home/oracle/dbmsdirect/test';
Directory created.
SQL>
SQL>
SQL> create table external_class
2 (
3 item_no number(10),
4 class varchar2(255),
5 level_date date,
6 note varchar2(4),
7 sched_level varchar2(10),
8 min_range number(12),
9 max_range number(14)
10 )
11 ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
12 (
13 TYPE oracle_loader
14 DEFAULT DIRECTORY mytest_dir
15 ACCESS PARAMETERS (
16 RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
17 FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
18 MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
19 REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
20 (item_no, class, level_date, note,sched_level,min_range,max_range)
21 )
22 LOCATION ('class.dat')
23 )
24 PARALLEL
REJECT LIMIT 0;
25
Table created.
SQL> desc external_class
Name                                      Null?    Type
ITEM_NO                                            NUMBER(10)
CLASS                                              VARCHAR2(255)
LEVEL_DATE                                         DATE
NOTE                                               VARCHAR2(4)
SCHED_LEVEL                                        VARCHAR2(10)
MIN_RANGE                                          NUMBER(12)
MAX_RANGE                                          NUMBER(14)
SQL>
SQL> select * from external_class;
no rows selected
SQL>
SQL> ho rm class.dat
SQL>
SQL> select * from external_class;
select * from external_class
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04040: file class.dat in MYTEST_DIR not found
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 19
SQL>
SQL> ho touch class.dat
SQL>
SQL> select * from external_class;
no rows selected
SQL>
SQL>
SQL> col DIRECTORY_PATH format a50
SQL> set lines 200
SQL> select * from dba_directories where DIRECTORY_NAME = 'MYTEST_DIR';
OWNER                          DIRECTORY_NAME                 DIRECTORY_PATH
SYS                            MYTEST_DIR                     /export/home/oracle/dbmsdirect/test
SQL>

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How do we select the directory path for external table files?.whether we can select any directory in any drive or we have to select particular drive and particular directory path?.how do we check for this?.
example
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or
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any procedure for that for selecting drive and directory?Not really clear to me what you mean by that?
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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14231/tables.htm#sthref2462
Just check the docs, I bet your questions will be answered while you read:
http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/homepage
or
http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/homepage

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