How to resolve error when Loading External Table?

Question

I’m getting the following errors when attempting to load External Table -- I've changed the file extension from .csv to .txt to resolve ORA-29913 but error re-occurred. See syntax of External Table below.
Thanks,
Carol-Ann
SQL> desc OWB_COUNTY_TIMEZONE_EXT;
Name Null? Type
STATE_CODE VARCHAR2(2)
COUNTY_CODE VARCHAR2(3)
TIME_ZONE VARCHAR2(1)
SQL> select count(*) from OWB_COUNTY_TIMEZONE_EXT;
select count(*) from OWB_COUNTY_TIMEZONE_EXT
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04063: unable to open log file owb_county_timezone.log
OS error Permission denied
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 14
ORA-06512: at line 1
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Synatx of External Table:
WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT FAILURE;
CREATE TABLE "OWB_COUNTY_TIMEZONE_EXT"
"STATE_CODE" VARCHAR2(2),
"COUNTY_CODE" VARCHAR2(3),
"TIME_ZONE" VARCHAR2(1))
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL (
TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY AIMQRYD_AIMP_LOC_FF_MODULE_LOC
ACCESS PARAMETERS (
RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
CHARACTERSET WE8MSWIN1252
STRING SIZES ARE IN BYTES
BADFILE 'owb_county_timezone'
DISCARDFILE 'owb_county_timezone'
LOGFILE 'owb_county_timezone'
FIELDS
TERMINATED BY ','
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' AND '"'
NOTRIM
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
"STATE_CODE" ,
"COUNTY_CODE" ,
"TIME_ZONE"
LOCATION (
AIMQRYD_AIMP_LOC_FF_MODULE_LOC:'county_timezone_comma.txt'
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED
NOPARALLEL

Answer 1

Hi Carol-Ann,
The key issue here is
"KUP-04063: unable to open log file owb_county_timezone.log
OS error Permission denied".
Looks like you don't have sufficient system priviliges on Unix.
This is wat AskTom mentions about it:
"the directory must exist on the SERVER.
the concerned user is the "oracle software owner" as far as the OS is concerned.
oracle must have read write access to this directory
and the directory must exist on the SERVER (database server) itself."
Hope this helps.
Cheers, Patrick