External Table – Simple" application

Hello Again,
I am trying to install "External Table – Simple” application and following is the instruction:
Installation
1.     Login to SQL*Plus as a user with dba privileges, such as system and run the create_directory.sql script . >This script will prompt you for a physical directory on the host OS where the database is installed. It will also >prompt you for the schema that your APEX application will parse as.
2.     Copy employees.txt into the physical directory that you specified in the previous step.
3.     Import the APEX application file ExtTable_APEX_Sample.sql using the Application Express web interface.
I could not continue for step 2 and 3 and I got following message:
Either the DATA_LOAD directory does not exist or this database schema does not have read / write access to >it. Please re-run the create_directory.sql script.I need someone’s help to continue it.
Thanks in advance,
Sam

What's the output of:
select * from all_directories where directory_name='DATA_LOAD'
?

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ENDIF.
get element via lead selection
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alternative access via index
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get single attribute
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      EXPORTING
        name = `CARRID`
      IMPORTING
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where carrid = 'lv_carrid'.
lo_nd_sflight1 = wd_context->get_child_node( name = wd_this->wdctx_SFLIGHT1 ).
lo_nd_sflight1->bind_table( itab_sflight ).
Regards,
Urbashi

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Hi all:
I am trying to display a text file from db sever with original spacing.
Well it's not entirely related to APEX.
This is how external table is created:
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       TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
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       access parameters
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       fields notrim
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Sat Dec 29                                                                Page 1
but when I do select * from u_x , the result shows:
Sat Dec 29 Page 1
all above is done in sql workshop /sql command in APEX 4.2.1 (db 10.2.0.5)
Is there any way to preserve the spaces between "29" and "Page"?
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I think the ideal way is to invoke client's notepad to open the server's text file.
anyway to generate the link?
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I have an application that runs with AQ. The front-end queues up batch-type
tasks in a queue. When one particular kind of message is dequeued, it
initiates a data load. That load requires the creation of an external
table.
The schema in question is owned by user BL (bulkload). The queue
is owned by BLB (bulkload batch), primarily to simplify some of the
rules needed by the resource manager in order to limit the total CPU
a batch process can consume. The BLB user has full access to the
BL schema, along with the following rights:
CREATE TYPE
CREATE TABLE
CREATE SEQUENCE
CREATE PROCEDURE
CREATE VIEW
CREATE SYNONYM
CREATE SEQUENCE
ALTER SESSION
CREATE SESSION
QUERY REWRITE
CREATE ANY CONTEXT
EXECUTE_CATALOG_ROLE
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW
CREATE ANY DIRECTORY
DROP ANY DIRECTORY
The table creation works fine under 9.2.0.8 (our current required
version). However the application generates an ORA-00942 table or view does
not exist when run under 10g (10.2.0.1 and 10.2.0.3).
The following statement is the problem:
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          CHARACTERSET 'WE8ISO8859P1'
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          LOCATION ('bulkload.csv')
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To clarify, the preceding statement, when handled by the process
for a queue message, failes with an ORA-00942.
Note that I can issue the command directly, as BLB or SYS, against
the BL schema with no problems. Further, as user BLB or SYS, I can do
the following:
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IS
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BEGIN
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          ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL (
          TYPE oracle_loader DEFAULT DIRECTORY EXT_100
          ACCESS PARAMETERS ( RECORDS DELIMITED BY "\r\n"
          CHARACTERSET ''WE8ISO8859P1''
          BADFILE EXT_100:''bulkload_bad.csv''
          LOGFILE EXT_100:''bulkload_log.csv''
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show errors
EXEC dotest
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has yielded no clues so far.
Thanks.

Define "has full access to the BL schema" given that it is impossible to grant access rights, in Oracle, by schema. What was done and how was it done?
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• Database: Oracle 11gR2
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CREATE TABLE "APP_XXX_XX_XXXX"(
"KEY_NO" NUMBER,
"XXX_XXX_XXXXX" VARCHAR2(1 CHAR),
"XXX_XXX_XXXXX" NUMBER(9,0),
"XXX_XXX_XXXXX" NUMBER(4,0),
"XXX_XXX_XXXXX" NUMBER(2,0),
"XXX_XXX_XXXXX" NUMBER(3,0))
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
( TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY "DIR"
ACCESS PARAMETERS
( RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
CHARACTERSET 'UTF8'
LOGFILE APP_XXX_XX_XXXX_%A_%P.LOG'
BADFILE 'APP_XXX_XX_XXXX_%A_%P.BAD'
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KEY_NO POSITION(1:9) INTEGER EXTERNAL,
XXX_XXX_XXXXX POSITION(10:10) CHAR,
XXX_XXX_XXXXX POSITION(11:19) INTEGER EXTERNAL,
XXX_XXX_XXXXX POSITION(11:14) INTEGER EXTERNAL,
XXX_XXX_XXXXX POSITION(15:16) INTEGER EXTERNAL,
XXX_XXX_XXXXX POSITION(17:19) INTEGER EXTERNAL)
LOCATION
( 'FILE1.TXT')
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED
PARALLEL 4;
The data forms part of a major driver table, which I may not be able to provide as per the NDA with my company.
The Script I have shared is standard template for creating external table as part of our applications.
We majorly cater for EU regions with this project.(European Characterset needed to be supported)
Thanks
Ganesh
Edited by: RGRAM on Feb 11, 2011 12:44 PM

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