External tables in Oracle 11g database is not loading null value records

We have upgraded our DB from Oracle 9i to 11g...
It was noticed that data load to external tables in 9i is rejecting the records with null columns..However upgrading it to 11g,it allows the records with null values.
Is there are way to restrict loading the records that has few coulmns that are null..
Can you please share if this is the expected behaviour in Oracle 11g...
Thanks.

Data isn't really loaded to an External Table. Rather, the external table lets you query an external data source as if it were a regular database table. To not see the rows with the NULL value, simply filter those rows out with your SQL statement:
SELECT * FROM my_external_table WHERE colX IS NOT NULL;
HTH,
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