Handling external table columns

1) I am creating an external table which reads a file with 5 columns. All the columns are delimited by a '|' symbol. And one of the column is a combined column of 'state' and 'pincode'.
I want to split them in the external table structure itself without creating a view from it. Is it possible to declare a external table structure like this.
2) Also, in the same table a column comes with leading zeros. I want to use the 'TRIM' function instead of declaring the datatype as 'NUMBER'.
Can anyone help me how to do these things.
Thanks & Regards,
Bh.

Hi,
Please use the New name for the External Table and create the view with the same name of the old external Table.
In that case you need not to change in the package level.
Regards
K.Rajkumar

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organization external
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TABLE "REC_XLS"
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WITH
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2      (
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4       employee_dob         CHAR(20),
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6       employee_first_name CHAR(15),
7       employee_middle_name CHAR(15),
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20                  employee_last_name   CHAR(18),
21                  employee_first_name CHAR(11),
22                  employee_middle_name CHAR(11),
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24                 )
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2      v_exists      boolean;
3      v_file_length number;
4      v_blocksize   number;
5      v_stmt        varchar2(1000) := 'alter table emp_load location(';
6      i             number := 1;
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10                          'TMP',
11                          'info' || i || '.dat',
12                          v_exists,
13                          v_file_length,
14                          v_blocksize
15                         );
16        exit when not v_exists;
17        v_stmt := v_stmt || '''info' || i || '.dat'',';
18        i := i + 1;
19      end loop;
20      v_stmt := rtrim(v_stmt,',') || ')';
21      dbms_output.put_line(v_stmt);
22      execute immediate v_stmt;
23 end;
24 /
alter table emp_load location('info1.dat','info2.dat')
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select * from emp_load;
EMPLO EMPLOYEE_DOB         EMPLOYEE_LAST_NAME   EMPLOYEE_FIRST_ EMPLOYEE_MIDDLE
EMPLOYEE_
56    november, 15, 1980   baker                mary            alice     0
01-SEP-04
87    december, 20, 1970   roper                lisa            marie     0
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ERROR at line 1:
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Record format DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
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      Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader
    CUST_ID                         CHAR (255)
      Terminated by ","
      Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader
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      Terminated by ","
      Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader
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      Terminated by ","
      Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader
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      Terminated by ","
      Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader
    QUANTITY_SOLD                   CHAR (255)
      Terminated by ","
      Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader
    AMOUNT_SOLD                     CHAR (255)
      Terminated by ","
      Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader
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NLS_LANGUAGE                   ENGLISH
NLS_TERRITORY                  UNITED KINGDOM
NLS_CURRENCY                   £
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY               UNITED KINGDOM
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS         .,
NLS_CALENDAR                   GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT                DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE              ENGLISH
NLS_SORT                       BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT                HH24.MI.SSXFF
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT           DD-MON-RR HH24.MI.SSXFF
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT             HH24.MI.SSXFF TZR
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT        DD-MON-RR HH24.MI.SSXFF TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY              ¤
NLS_COMP                       BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS           BYTE
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Mich
Edited by: Mich Talebzadeh on 24-Nov-2011 04:19

Thanks
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        , AMOUNT_SOLD           NUMBER(10,2)
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        TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
        DEFAULT DIRECTORY sales_feeds
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                FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
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                (         PROD_ID
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                        , TIME_ID DATE 'dd/mm/yyyy HH24:MI:SS'
                        , CHANNEL_ID
                        , PROMO_ID
                        , QUANTITY_SOLD
                        , AMOUNT_SOLD
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   PROD_ID    CUST_ID TIME_ID             CHANNEL_ID   PROMO_ID QUANTITY_SOLD AMOUNT_SOLD
        18       3131 21/03/1998 00:00:00          3        999             1     2600.76Regards,
Mich

How to reject external table rows with some blank columns

How to reject external table rows with some blank columns
I have an external table and I would like to reject rows when a number of fields are empty. Here are the details.
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ID NUMBER(10),
TSTAMP DATE,
C1 NUMBER(5,0),
C2 DATE,
C3 FLOAT(126)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL (
TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY EXT_DAT_DIR
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RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
LOAD WHEN (NOT (c1 = BLANKS AND c2 = BLANKS AND c3 = BLANKS))
LOGFILE EXT_LOG_DIR:'exttab.log'
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DISCARDFILE EXT_BAD_DIR:'exttab.dsc'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY "|"
LRTRIM
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL
FIELDS (
ID,
TSTAMP DATE 'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS',
C1,
C2 DATE 'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS',
C3
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REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED
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The above statement works fine and creates the table. However when I am trying to load data using it, the following error is produced:
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 "not": expecting one of: "double-quoted-string, identifier, (, number, single-quoted-string"
KUP-01007: at line 1 column 41
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 14
ORA-06512: at line 1
It seems that external tables driver does not understand the "NOT (...)" condition. Could anyone suggest how I can achieve what I want in a different way?
Thank you.
Denis

Another method would be to simply remove the "LOAD WHEN condition" and create a view on the external table which filters the data.
CREATE EXTTAB_VIEW AS
SELECT * FROM EXTTAB
WHERE not (c1 is null and c2 is null and c3 is null);

External Table error: KUP-04043: table column not found in external source

I am trying to get the syntaxc correct for an external table.
I keep getting this error:
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ORA-29400: data cartridge error
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*Action: Examine the error messages take appropriate action.
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SD NUMBER
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I have tried various combinations of VARCHAR2 lengths and NUMBER vs VARCHAR2 for some of the numeric fields.
I am not getting any Bad, Log or Discard files.
I can do a GET from the SQL prompt, and see the data:
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Windows 7
Oracle 11.2
I am not positive of the newline record delimiter - these files are generated by an automated system. Probably generated on a UNIX machine.
Any suggestions on what to try would be helpful.
KUP-04043 error message says to check the syntax .. .I am running out of thigns to check.
Thank you - Karen

And the get ( I created the sanitized file, so we have a real working, failing, santiized example):
SQL> get c:\Inputfiles\myfile.rpt
1 ZZ,ANYOLDDATA,77777,25002000,201103,12,555.555,11.222
2 ZZ,ANYOLDDATA,77777,25002300,201103,34,602.162,8.777
3 ZZ,ANYOLDDATA,77777,25002400,201103,12,319.127,9.666
4 ZZ,OTHERDATA,77121,55069600,201103,34,25.544,1.332
5* ZZ,OTHERDATAS,77122,55069600,201103,22, 1.011,0.293
So the full series is:
CREATE DIRECTORY INPUT_DIR AS 'C:\InputFiles';
-- grant READ and WRITE
GRANT READ ON DIRECTORY INPUT_DIR TO ILQC;
GRANT WRITE ON DIRECTORY INPUT_DIR TO ILQC;
-- As SYS, create the bad/log/discard directory:
CREATE DIRECTORY LOGDIR AS 'C:\InputFiles\Logs';
-- grant READ and WRITE
GRANT READ ON DIRECTORY LOGDIR TO ILQC;
GRANT WRITE ON DIRECTORY LOGDIR TO ILQC;
CREATE TABLE MY_INPUT (
FIRST_CODE VARCHAR2(10),
SECOND_CODE VARCHAR2(20),
MY_NUMBER VARCHAR2(20),
THIRD_CODE VARCHAR2(20),
YEARMO VARCHAR2(6),
N NUMBER,
MEAN NUMBER,
SD NUMBER
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL (
TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY INPUT_DIR
ACCESS PARAMETERS (
RECORDS DELIMITED BY newline
BADFILE INPUT_LOGDIR:'bad.bad'
LOGFILE INPUT_LOGDIR:'log.log'
DISCARDFILE INPUT_LOGDIR:'discards.log'
fields terminated by ',' LRTRIM
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
( THIRD_CODE,N,MEAN,SD) )
LOCATION ( 'myfile.rpt')
NOPARALLEL
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
SELECT * FROM my_input;
and GET is as above.

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