External Table - Record delimiter

Hi,
Is it possible to have combination of character and NEWLINE as a record delimiter in external table. i.e something like RECORDS DELIMITED BY '#^'||chr(10)
Thanks
S. Sathish Kumar

you can always read the manuals
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96652/ch12.htm#1007431
assuming that you mean you have the #^ at the end of the line, then it's just
RECORDS DELIMITED BY '#^'
if you mean that you sometimes have #^ in the middle, and only break when it's at the end of the line, then you need to use (on windows)
RECORDS DELIMITED BY '#^\r\n'

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External Table, Handling Delimited and Special Character in file

Hi ,
I have created one external table with these option
( TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY ***************************************
ACCESS PARAMETERS
( RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
SKIP 0
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|'
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
LOCATION
( 'test_feed.csv'
Now problem is these are coming as valid.
anupam|anupam2
anupam"test|anupam"test2
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anupam""""test5|test5
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One approach is to define the external table a ONE column table (with single field on the file). This way each line will come in as a row in the external table. Of course you have to build "parsing logic" on top of that.
DROP TABLE xtern_table;
CREATE TABLE xtern_table
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desc xtern_table
Name Null Type
C1        VARCHAR2(4000)
> column c1 format A40
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anupam|anupam2
anupam"test|anupam"test2
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anupam""""test5|test5
anupam"|test7
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External Table : ROW Delimiter

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Try increasing reject limit to unlimited!
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External table.How to load numbers (decimal and scientific notation format)

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"PERIOD" Char,
"ACCOUNT" Char,
"DEPT" Char,
"ACTIVITY_LOC" Char,
"AMOUNT" Char
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@OP,
What version of Oracle are you using?
Just cut'n'paste of you script and example woked FINE for me.
however my quation is... An external table will LOAD all data or none at all. How are you validating/concluding that...
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select * from v$version where rownum <2;
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select * from mydata;
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CY001_STATU     2009     Feb     11220020GR     '03900     CYZ900     -9,99999999839929e-03
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CY001_STATU     2009     Dec     11220020GR     '03900     CYZ900     -9,99999999839929e-03
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ACCOUNT VARCHAR2(50 BYTE),
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"ACCOUNT" Char,
"DEPT" Char,
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"AMOUNT" Char
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External table headache

Hi there!
Got this problem that are driving me quite mad.
I'm working on a Oracle 9.2.0.7, Unix is a hp-ux.
The problem is:
using an external table, record in variable format, with '^' as separetor, if file size is an exact power of 1024 (i.e. 1K, 2k, 1M etc) I get the error:
reject limit reached
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For now the "work around" is to edit the file (vi on file so we check that there aren't strange chars) and then add a space at the end of it.
After this the file is loaded!
Anyone have an idea?
Thank you,
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Sorry guys, I was a bit busy.
I've talked with a coworker, we got an example of a table and a more precise idea: it's not "power of 1K" but "power of 1M"
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c_field_1 CHAR(1),
v_field_2 VARCHAR2(15),
v_field_3 VARCHAR2(24),
v_field_4 VARCHAR2(24),
v_field_5 VARCHAR2(14),
v_field_6 VARCHAR2(14),
n_field_7 NUMBER(6,0),
n_field_8 NUMBER(6,0),
n_field_9 NUMBER(10,0),
v_field_10 VARCHAR2(79),
v_field_11 VARCHAR2(12),
c_field_12 CHAR(1),
v_field_13 VARCHAR2(2),
v_field_14 VARCHAR2(7),
v_field_15 VARCHAR2(30),
v_field_16 VARCHAR2(14),
d_field_17 DATE,
n_field_18 NUMBER(8,0),
d_field_19 DATE,
n_field_20 NUMBER(8,0),
v_field_21 VARCHAR2(191),
d_field_22 DATE,
n_field_23 NUMBER(8,0),
v_field_24 VARCHAR2(2),
n_field_25 NUMBER(6,0),
n_field_26 NUMBER(10,0))
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL (
DEFAULT DIRECTORY DR_LOAD
ACCESS PARAMETERS(records delimited by newline
badfile 'DR_ERROR':'EXT_TABLE_LOAD.error'
logfile 'DR_LOG':'EXT_TABLE_LOAD.log'
fields (
     c_field_1 POSITION(2:2)     CHAR(1)
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Bye,
Antonio

SQL Loader/External Table multiple record delimiters

Hi every one.
I have a strange problem, I have an external csv file which i wish to deal with (external tables or sql loader). This csv is totally not organized in structure and it contains records that are mixed together, meaning that some records are delimited by newline characters. So in short, i want to know if I will be able to load the data in this csv separating records by newline character and another character? So is that possible to have multiple record delimiters specified in the same ctl file?

abohsin,
I think using the Stream record format would be helful in your case. Please explore that.
Using stream record option, instead of the default new line, you can specify a user defined record delimiter.
Check this link.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/ldr_control_file.htm#i1005509
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Replace all delimiters witha standard delimiters (in unix)
sed s/HEAD,/**DLM**/g < test.dat >test2.dat
sed s/TAIL,/**DLM**/g < test2.dat >test3.dat
create table t(
TEXT varchar2(100)
and Use that delimiter as the standard delimiter.
load data
infile "test3.dat" "str '**DLM**'"
into table T
TRUNCATE
fields terminated by 'XXXXX' optionally enclosed by '"'
TEXT
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TEXT
1111,2222,
4444,5555,
4444
1111,3333,
8888,6666,
5555
{code}
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The thin driver still works fine with the new table. However, the oci driver generates the following error with the new table:
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Particulars
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Does anyone out there have any thoughts.
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Issues with external table from text file ( tab delimiter )

Hello Guru,
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"C1" "C2"
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"test column1" "01/09/2012"
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C1 VARCHAR2(50 BYTE),
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ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
TYPE ORACLE_LOADER DEFAULT DIRECTORY "TEST"
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"test column1" "01/27/2012"
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C1 C2
"test column1" "01/27/2012"
"test column1" "01/27/2012"
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my version :
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.5.0 - 64bi
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.5.0 - Production
"CORE 10.2.0.5.0 Production"
TNS for HPUX: Version 10.2.0.5.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.5.0 - Production
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Try this:
-- Etc ---
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-- Etc ---
{code}
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I have an External Table defined with fixed record size, using Oracle 10.2.0.2.0 on HP/UX. At 279 byte records (1 or more fields, doesn't seem to matter), it can read almost 5M bytes in the file (17,421 records to be exact). At 280 byte records, it can not, but blows up with "partial record at end of file" - which is nonsense. It can read up to 3744 records, just below 1,048,320 bytes (1M bytes). 1 record over that, it blows up.
Now, If I add READSIZE and set it to 1.5M, then it works. I found this extends further, for instance 280 recsize with READSIZE 1.5M will work for a while but blows up on 39M bytes in the file (I didn't bother figuring exactly where it stops working in this case). Increasing READSIZE to 5M works again, for 78M bytes in file. But change the definition to have 560 byte records and it blows up. Decrease the file size to 39M bytes and it still won't work with 560 byte records.
Anyone have any explanation for this behavior? The docs say READSIZE is the read buffer, but only mentions that it is important to the largest record that can be processed - mine are only 280/560 bytes. My table definition is practically taken right out of the example in the docs for fixed length records (change the fields, sizes, names and it is identical - all clauses the same).
We are going to be using these external tables a lot, and need them to be reliable, so increasing READSIZE to the largest value I can doesn't make me comfortable, since I can't be sure in production how large an input file may become.
Should I report this as a bug to Oracle, or am I missing something?
Thanks,
Bob

External table max record length check

This question is regarding fixed length input file.
I am checking to see if it is possible to add a check to verify the max length of a record when defining an external table.
For example, if I am expecting a fixed length file with max record/row length of 100, is it possible to reject lines in the
file that are more than 100 characters long?
Thanks.

What you can do is something like:
DROP TABLE TBL_EXT
CREATE TABLE TBL_EXT(
                     VAL       VARCHAR2(4),
                     INDICATOR VARCHAR2(1)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL(
                        TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
                        DEFAULT DIRECTORY TEMP
                        ACCESS PARAMETERS (
                                           FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
                                           OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
                                           MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
                                           REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
                                            VAL       POSITION(1:4),
                                            INDICATOR POSITION(5:5) CHAR NOTRIM
                        LOCATION ('tbl_ext.txt')
SELECT *
FROM TBL_EXT
WHERE INDICATOR IS NULL
{code}
Now tbl_ext.txt:
{code}
X
XX
XXX
XXXX
XXXX    XXXXXX
XXXX    <-- this line has trailing spaces
XXX
XX
X
{code}
Now:
{code}
SQL> CREATE TABLE TBL_EXT(
2                       VAL       VARCHAR2(4),
3                       INDICATOR VARCHAR2(1)
4                      )
5    ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL(
6                          TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
7                          DEFAULT DIRECTORY TEMP
8                          ACCESS PARAMETERS (
9                                             FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
10                                             OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
11                                             MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
12                                             REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
13                                             (
14                                              VAL       POSITION(1:4),
15                                              INDICATOR POSITION(5:5) CHAR NOTRIM
16                                             )
17                                            )
18                          LOCATION ('tbl_ext.txt')
19                         )
20 /
Table created.
SQL> SELECT *
2    FROM TBL_EXT
3    WHERE INDICATOR IS NULL
4 /
VAL I
X
XX
XXX
XXXX
XXX
XX
X
7 rows selected.
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SY.

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Hi all,
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Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
Thank you very much.

Hi
Try this:
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run;
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Error: while Selecting External table

Hi everybody,
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2 (S_A VARCHAR2(20),
3 S_TYPE VARCHAR2(20),
4 S_CO VARCHAR2(20),
5 S_CONAME VARCHAR2(40),
6 S_RATE NUMBER,
7 S_QTY NUMBER,
8 S_G NUMBER,
9 S_H NUMBER,
10 S_TIME TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE,
11 S_DATE DATE,
12 S_PCODE VARCHAR2(20),
13 S_SETNO VARCHAR2(20),
14 S_M VARCHAR2(20),
15 S_N VARCHAR2(20),
16 S_O VARCHAR2(20),
17 S_CLIENTOWN VARCHAR2(10),
18 S_ISIN VARCHAR2(12),
19 S_ORDER_TIME TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
20 )
21 ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
22 (TYPE oracle_loader
23 DEFAULT DIRECTORY BSE17122007
24 ACCESS PARAMETERS
25 (RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
26 FIELDS
27 (
28 S_A CHAR(20),
29 S_TYPE CHAR(20),
30 S_CO CHAR(20),
31 S_CONAME CHAR(20),
32 S_RATE CHAR(20),
33 S_QTY CHAR(20),
34 S_G CHAR(20),
35 S_H CHAR(20),
36 S_TIME CHAR(35) date_format TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE mask "DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM
37 S_DATE CHAR(22) date_format DATE mask "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mi:ss ",
38 S_PCODE CHAR(20),
39 S_SETNO CHAR(20),
40 S_M CHAR(20),
41 S_N CHAR(20),
42 S_O CHAR(20),
43 S_CLIENTOWN CHAR(20),
44 S_ISIN CHAR(20),
45 S_ORDER_TIME date_format TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE mask "DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM"
46 )
47 )
48 location (BSE17122007:'BR171207.DAT')
49 )
50 ;
Table created.
SQL> SELECT * FROM TEMP_SAUDA;
SELECT * FROM TEMP_SAUDA
ERROR at line 1:
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 "date_format": expecting one of: "binary_double,
binary_float, comma, char, date, defaultif, decimal, double, float, integer, (,
nullif, oracle_date, oracle_number, position, raw, recnum, ), unsigned,
varrawc, varchar, varraw, varcharc, zoned"
KUP-01007: at line 21 column 14
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 19
Is there any mistake in this table creation.
what i have to declare to the time format if the format in the file id hh:mm:ss
Thank u...!
Ravi

The output you posted is completely wrong, I could not even create the table without errors.
Try with this.
CREATE TABLE TEMP_SAUDA
(S_A VARCHAR2(20),
S_TYPE VARCHAR2(20),
S_CO VARCHAR2(20),
S_CONAME VARCHAR2(40),
S_RATE NUMBER,
S_QTY NUMBER,
S_G NUMBER,
S_H NUMBER,
S_TIME TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE,
S_DATE DATE,
S_PCODE VARCHAR2(20),
S_SETNO VARCHAR2(20),
S_M VARCHAR2(20),
S_N VARCHAR2(20),
S_O VARCHAR2(20),
S_CLIENTOWN VARCHAR2(10),
S_ISIN VARCHAR2(12),
S_ORDER_TIME TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
(TYPE oracle_loader
DEFAULT DIRECTORY BSE17122007
ACCESS PARAMETERS
(RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
FIELDS terminated by "|"
S_A CHAR(20),
S_TYPE CHAR(20),
S_CO CHAR(20),
S_CONAME CHAR(20),
S_RATE CHAR(20),
S_QTY CHAR(20),
S_G CHAR(20),
S_H CHAR(20),
S_TIME CHAR(8) date_format TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE mask "HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM",
S_DATE CHAR(10) date_format DATE mask "yyyy/mm/dd",
S_PCODE CHAR(20),
S_SETNO CHAR(20),
S_M CHAR(20),
S_N CHAR(20),
S_O CHAR(20),
S_CLIENTOWN CHAR(20),
S_ISIN CHAR(20),
S_ORDER_TIME char(8) date_format TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE mask "HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM"
location (BSE17122007:'BR171207.DAT')
;With this you get:
SQL> col s_time format a40
SQL> col s_date format a40
SQL> col s_order_time format a40
SQL> r
1* select s_time,s_date,s_order_time from temp_sauda
S_TIME                                   S_DATE                                   S_ORDER_TIME
01-JAN-08 10.31.01.000000 AM +00:00      17.DEC.2007 00:00:00                     01-JAN-08 10.31.00.000000 AM +00:00
01-JAN-08 10.31.01.000000 AM +00:00      17.DEC.2007 00:00:00                     01-JAN-08 10.31.00.000000 AM +00:00
01-JAN-08 10.33.28.000000 AM +00:00      17.DEC.2007 00:00:00                     01-JAN-08 10.33.28.000000 AM +00:00Be aware that your file does not contain date information for the time fields, so as you see above it is defaulted to 01-JAN-08 for the S_TIME and S_ORDER_TIME column.

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ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
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SCO,Scotland,English
IRE,Ireland,English
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TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY ext_tables
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04040: file Countries1.txt in EXT_TABLES not found
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 19
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Step1: Check the file is actually there.
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0>mkdir temp
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Volume in drive C is C_Drive
Volume Serial Number is 8A93-1441
Directory of C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\temp
07/30/2011 12:00 PM    <DIR>          .
07/30/2011 12:00 PM    <DIR>          ..
07/30/2011 12:00 PM                79 countries1.txt
               1 File(s)             79 bytes
               2 Dir(s) 50,110,582,784 bytes free
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ENG,England,English
SCO,Scotland,English
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WAL,Wales,Welsh
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BANNER
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Prod
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
CORE    10.2.0.3.0      Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
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C:\>sqlplus scott@orclsb/tiger
SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.4.2 - Production on Sat Jul 30 12:04:24 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
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2    country_code      VARCHAR2(5),
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4    country_language VARCHAR2(50)
5 )
6 ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL (
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8    DEFAULT DIRECTORY ext_tables
9    ACCESS PARAMETERS (
10      RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
11      FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
12      MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
13      (
14        country_code      CHAR(5),
15        country_name      CHAR(50),
16        country_language CHAR(50)
17      )
18    )
19    LOCATION ('Countries1.txt')
20 )
21 PARALLEL 5
22 REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
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SQL> SELECT * FROM countries_ext;
COUNT COUNTRY_NAME
COUNTRY_LANGUAGE
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English
SCO   Scotland
English
IRE   Ireland
English
COUNT COUNTRY_NAME
COUNTRY_LANGUAGE
WAL   Wales
Welsh

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I am getting the follwing error while selecting data from external table. Any idea why?
SQL> CREATE TABLE SE2_EXT (SE_REF_NO VARCHAR2(255),
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3        SE_TRAN_AMT_LCY FLOAT(126),
4        SE_REVERSAL_MARKER VARCHAR2(255))
5 ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL (
6    TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
7    DEFAULT DIRECTORY ext_tables
8    ACCESS PARAMETERS (
9      RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
10      FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
11      MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
12      (
13        country_code      CHAR(5),
14        country_name      CHAR(50),
15        country_language CHAR(50)
16      )
17    )
18    LOCATION ('SE2.csv')
19 )
20 PARALLEL 5
21 REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
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SQL> select * from se2_ext;
SQL> select count(*) from se2_ext;
select count(*) from se2_ext
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04043: table column not found in external source: SE_REF_NO
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 19

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