Inserts on External Tables

Please I just want to confirm that it is impossible to do insert on external tables. I kept getting the error while doing some practise with them
ORA-30657: operation not supported on external organized table
regards,

In general it is not possible to insert into an external table.
However there is a way using the ORACLE_DATAPUMP access driver instead of ORACLE_LOADER. See also: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/et_dp_driver.htm#i1007502
THere is a way to use external tables to write data to a file. But it is sill no "insert" operation but a "create as select".
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Sven W.

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user1130292 wrote:
Hi,
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what might be the reason??
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regards,
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NUMBER,
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NUMBER,
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VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
PR_RDNG_IND2
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
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READING_IND
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
FB_IND
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
ADJ_AMT
NUMBER,
MTR_NUM1
NUMBER,
MTR_NUM2
NUMBER,
AVG_UNITS1
NUMBER,
AVG_UNITS2
NUMBER,
MIN_BILL_AMT
NUMBER,
METER_COST_DEMANDED
NUMBER,
MF1
VARCHAR2(2 BYTE),
MF2
VARCHAR2(2 BYTE),
MR
VARCHAR2(2 BYTE),
ROUTE
VARCHAR2(4 BYTE),
SEQ
VARCHAR2(4 BYTE),
DISC_IND
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
FREEZE_CODE
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
MTH40
NUMBER,
CONCES_EC
NUMBER,
METER_COST_ARREARS
NUMBER,
METER_COST_PAID
NUMBER,
SANCTION_LOAD
NUMBER,
PENALTY_ON_CL
NUMBER,
CL_SLB
NUMBER,
UNTSLB
NUMBER,
CAPACIT_PENALTY
NUMBER,
ARREARS_OF_INT
NUMBER,
INT_ON_ARREARS
NUMBER,
FIXED_CHARGES
NUMBER,
ASSESSED_DPC
NUMBER,
FCA_UNT_OLD
NUMBER,
FCA_UNT_NEW
NUMBER,
DEFECT_RDN1
NUMBER,
DEFECT_RDN2
NUMBER,
CAP_CT_RENT
NUMBER,
CT_RENT
NUMBER,
ADV_BILL_IND
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
ADV_BILL_RD_IND
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
INST_IND
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
CONSCUR_STATUS
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
MTR_COST1
NUMBER,
MTR_COST2
NUMBER,
MTR_COST3
NUMBER,
LOOM_NOS
NUMBER,
CONS_OLD_TARIFF
NUMBER,
CONS_NEW_TARIFF
NUMBER,
PD_TD_DATE
VARCHAR2(6 BYTE),
ED5
VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),
ED6
VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),
ED8
VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),
B66_AMT1
NUMBER,
BILL_MTH
VARCHAR2(6 BYTE),
STD_MTH
NUMBER,
PREV_RD_MTH
VARCHAR2(4 BYTE),
ACCT_HD_TRF
VARCHAR2(2 BYTE),
ADM_CODE
NUMBER,
BILL_DUE_DATE
DATE,
EC_DUTY
NUMBER,
ABNOR_IND
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
TRF04_CONN_LOAD
NUMBER,
PROCESS_DT
DATE,
SUPPLY_DATE
VARCHAR2(6 BYTE),
BILL_DT_FROM
DATE,
RECEIPT_AMT
NUMBER,
LOCKED_CR_UNITS
NUMBER,
LOCKED_CHARGES
NUMBER,
LOCKED_ED
NUMBER,
LOCKED_FCA
NUMBER,
LOCKED_FC
NUMBER,
LOCKED_RLCHARGES
NUMBER,
LOCKED_CL
NUMBER,
LOCKED_ECEDFIX
NUMBER,
LOCKED_ACC_MONTH
NUMBER,
AVG_OLD_CONSMP
NUMBER(6),
AVG_SINCE
VARCHAR2(4 BYTE),
AVG_OCCURANCES
NUMBER(2),
AVG_MA_IND
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
MTR1_PHASE
NUMBER(1),
MTR_PHASE1
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
MTR2_PHASE
NUMBER(1),
IND_CAT
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
L61_TARIFF
NUMBER(2),
MTR_CHG_AMT1
NUMBER(12),
NO_OF_MONTHS
NUMBER,
MTR_CHG_AMT2
NUMBER(12),
B66_AMT
NUMBER(10),
ADJ_AMT11
NUMBER,
B66_ADJ_TYP
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
B60_AMT
NUMBER(10),
ADJ_AMT13
NUMBER,
B60_ADJ_TYP
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
CPF_NO
NUMBER(8),
ADJ1
NUMBER(9),
ADJ2
NUMBER(9),
ADJ3
NUMBER(9),
ADJ4
NUMBER(9),
ADJ5
NUMBER(9),
ADJ6
NUMBER(9),
ADJ7
NUMBER(9),
ADJ8
NUMBER(9),
ADJ11
NUMBER(9),
ADJ13
NUMBER(9),
DTC_CODE
VARCHAR2(7 BYTE),
TITLE
VARCHAR2(8 BYTE),
NAME
VARCHAR2(36 BYTE),
ADDRESS1
VARCHAR2(26 BYTE),
ADDRESS2
VARCHAR2(26 BYTE),
VILLAGE
VARCHAR2(14 BYTE),
PIN
VARCHAR2(6 BYTE),
LOCK_SINCE
VARCHAR2(4 BYTE),
FAULTY_SINCE
VARCHAR2(4 BYTE),
MTR_DIGIT1
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
MTR_DIGIT2
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
FCA_PAISE
NUMBER(9),
GTY_EXP_DT
VARCHAR2(6 BYTE),
REJ_READ_MTR1
NUMBER(6),
REJ_READ_MTR2
NUMBER(6),
REJ_ADJ_UNITS1
NUMBER(6),
REJ_CONSMP
NUMBER(6),
OWNER_CODE
NUMBER(1),
MTR_CAP_AMP
NUMBER(1),
MTR_A
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
MTR_C
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
MTR_D
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
MTR_E
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
CUT_OF_DT
DATE,
POLE
VARCHAR2(6 BYTE),
EDRATE
NUMBER(9),
AREA
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
MTR_BRAND1
VARCHAR2(2 BYTE),
MTR_BRAND2
VARCHAR2(2 BYTE),
LC1
NUMBER(3),
POWER_CUT_IND
VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),
SERVICE_DT
DATE,
ADJ_UNIT11
NUMBER,
ADJ_UNIT22
NUMBER,
RECEIPT_AMT1
NUMBER,
MTR1
NUMBER,
STRK_BLL_AMT
NUMBER,
DUTY_UNTS1
NUMBER,
DUTY_AMT1
NUMBER,
DUTY_UNTS2
NUMBER,
DUTY_AMT2
NUMBER,
DUTY_UNTS3
NUMBER,
DUTY_AMT3
NUMBER,
ADJ_UNIT_45
NUMBER,
ADV_BIL_EC
NUMBER,
NEW_DUTY_RATE
NUMBER,
NEW_DUTY_UNTS
NUMBER,
NEW_DUTY_AMT
NUMBER,
DPC_PAB
NUMBER,
MS9_SINCE
VARCHAR2(4 BYTE),
DISTRICT_CODE
NUMBER(2),
TAX_ON_SALE
NUMBER,
LOCKED_CHARGES_TSE
NUMBER
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TOT_EC POSITION
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TOT_ED POSITION
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NETBILL_AMT POSITION
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(168-176 ),
TARIFF_CODE POSITION
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DUTY_CODE POSITION
(179-180 ),
DISCONN_TAG POSITION
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MIN_CHRG_IND POSITION
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OC_CODE1 POSITION
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OC_CODE2 POSITION
(184-184 ),
OC_AMT1 POSITION
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OC_AMT2 POSITION
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PREV_DPC POSITION
(221-238 ),
CREDIT_AVG_BILL POSITION
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(265-282 ),
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(283-300 ),
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(301-318 ),
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(319-336 ),
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LOCATION
(EXT_DIR:'rgtr1.txt')
REJECT
LIMIT UNLIMITED
LOGGING
NOCACHE
NOPARALLEL;

KUP-04020: found record longer than buffer size supported, number, in string
Cause: a record in the data source was longer than the maximum data size supported. The number reported is the maximum supported size of a record.
Action: none
Examine your bad file and log files for details of the rows which failed from insertion.

XML File in External Table - OS error permission denied.

Hi.
10g R2, Red Hat Linux
I'm using the article (see below, taken from http://www.dbazine.com/olc/olc-articles/scardina1 by Mark Scardina) to create an external table where I'd store my XML file.
So, I
1. Created a directory xmlfile_dir
2. Granted access to needed db user
3. Created the table
CREATE TABLE relayxml_xt (doc CLOB)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY xmlfile_dir
ACCESS PARAMETERS
FIELDS (lobfn CHAR TERMINATED BY ',')
COLUMN TRANSFORMS (doc FROM lobfile (lobfn))
LOCATION ('xml.dat')
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
4. mv relay.xml /xmlfile_dir/xml.dat
When I run SELECT * FROM relayxml_xt I get this:
Error starting at line 1 in command:
select * from relayxml_xt
Error report:
SQL Error: ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04063: unable to open log file RELAYXML_XT_28773.log
OS error Permission denied
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 19
29913. 00000 - "error in executing %s callout"
*Cause:    The execution of the specified callout caused an error.
*Action:   Examine the error messages take appropriate action.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Using External Tables
Introduced in Oracle9i, Oracle’s external table feature offers a solution to define a table in the database while leaving the data stored outside of the database. Prior to Oracle Database 10g, external tables can be used only as read-only tables. In other words, if you create an external table for XML files, these files can be queries and the table can be joined with other tables. However, no DML operations, such as INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE, are allowed on the external tables.
Note: In Oracle Database 10g , by using the ORACLE_DATAPUMP driver instead of the default ORACLE_DRIVER, you can write to external tables. In Oracle Database 10g, you can define VARCHAR2 and CLOB columns in external tables to store XML documents. The following example shows how you can create an external table with a CLOB column to store the XML documents. First, you need to create a DIRECTORY to read the data files:
CREATE DIRECTORY data_file_dir AS 'D:\xmlbook\Examples\Chapter9\src\xml';
GRANT READ, WRITE ON DIRECTORY data_file_dir TO demo;
Then, you can use this DIRECTORY to define an external table:
CREATE TABLE customer_xt (doc CLOB)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY data_file_dir
ACCESS PARAMETERS
FIELDS (lobfn CHAR TERMINATED BY ',')
COLUMN TRANSFORMS (doc FROM lobfile (lobfn))
LOCATION ('xml.dat')
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
The xml.dat file follows:
customer1.xml
customer2.xml
If you describe the table, you can see the following definition:
SQL> DESC customer_xt;
Name Null? Type
DOC CLOB
Then, you can query the XML document as follows:
SELECT XMLType(doc).extract('/Customer/EMAIL')
FROM customer_xt;
Though the query requires run-time XMLType creation and XPath evaluation, this approach is useful when applications just need a few queries on the XML data and don’t want to upload the XML data into database. In Oracle Database 10g, you cannot create external tables that contain pre-defined XMLType column types.
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vi2167

Your don't have the proper operating system privileges. Be sure that you (=oracle OS user / the OS Linux user that is starting the database) are allowed have read privs on the path and/or file.
for example...
chown -Rf /xxxxxxx/xxxx/etc
ls -l file.xml
file.xml    oracle:oinstall    rw-rw-rw

Comparison of Data Loading techniques - Sql Loader & External Tables

Below are 2 techniques using which the data can be loaded from Flat files to oracle tables.
1)     SQL Loader:
a.     Place the flat file( .txt or .csv) on the desired Location.
b.     Create a control file
Load Data
Infile "Mytextfile.txt" (-- file containing table data , specify paths correctly, it could be .csv as well)
Append or Truncate (-- based on requirement) into oracle tablename
Separated by "," (or the delimiter we use in input file) optionally enclosed by
(Field1, field2, field3 etc)
c.     Now run sqlldr utility of oracle on sql command prompt as
sqlldr username/password .CTL filename
d.     The data can be verified by selecting the data from the table.
Select * from oracle_table;
2)     External Table:
a.     Place the flat file (.txt or .csv) on the desired location.
abc.csv
1,one,first
2,two,second
3,three,third
4,four,fourth
b.     Create a directory
create or replace directory ext_dir as '/home/rene/ext_dir'; -- path where the source file is kept
c.     After granting appropriate permissions to the user, we can create external table like below.
create table ext_table_csv (
i Number,
n Varchar2(20),
m Varchar2(20)
organization external (
type oracle_loader
default directory ext_dir
access parameters (
records delimited by newline
fields terminated by ','
missing field values are null
location ('file.csv')
reject limit unlimited;
d.     Verify data by selecting it from the external table now
select * from ext_table_csv;
External tables feature is a complement to existing SQL*Loader functionality.
It allows you to –
•     Access data in external sources as if it were in a table in the database.
•     Merge a flat file with an existing table in one statement.
•     Sort a flat file on the way into a table you want compressed nicely
•     Do a parallel direct path load -- without splitting up the input file, writing
Shortcomings:
•     External tables are read-only.
•     No data manipulation language (DML) operations or index creation is allowed on an external table.
Using Sql Loader You can –
•     Load the data from a stored procedure or trigger (insert is not sqlldr)
•     Do multi-table inserts
•     Flow the data through a pipelined plsql function for cleansing/transformation
Comparison for data loading
To make the loading operation faster, the degree of parallelism can be set to any number, e.g 4
So, when you created the external table, the database will divide the file to be read by four processes running in parallel. This parallelism happens automatically, with no additional effort on your part, and is really quite convenient. To parallelize this load using SQL*Loader, you would have had to manually divide your input file into multiple smaller files.
Conclusion:
SQL*Loader may be the better choice in data loading situations that require additional indexing of the staging table. However, we can always copy the data from external tables to Oracle Tables using DB links.

Please let me know your views on this.

External Table Authorization Best practices

Hi,
I am working on OBIEE External table Authorization. I am able to successfully implement for one Project (catalog). The field for Authorization table (AuthTable) are
Windows_ID Employeeid Name EmpEMail GroupName Process_ID Process_Name Portal_Path
Here as per requirement a user should see data for a few process. So, I put a column for Process_ID and subsequently I created a INIT block in repository where query are like
Select 'PROCESS_ID',AuthTable. Process_id
From AuthTable
WHERE upper(AuthTable.AD_ID) = upper(':USER')
Then for User Groups I applied FILTERs for all the tables E.G for every Logical Table I applied Filter
Dim_Process."Process ID" = VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION."PROCESS_ID")
I checked data and every thing is correct. But My question is:
We have many projects/catalog for which Filter Criteria will be different so shall we insert a new column for each criteria in SAME AuthTable or there is any other and better way to maintain it. Because if we maintain one table for all the projects/catalog it will be very messy I would prefer to keep different tables for different projects/catalog as there data marts are different.
But Problem is for all other session variables we may use different INIT BLOCKS and hence different tables BUT for PORTALPATH there should be only one INIT BLOCK so only for PORTALPATH sake we need to keep every thing in same table ?
Tell me if I am wrong some where in my understanding or there is a better way to do it.
Regards
Saurabh

Hi,
Pls refer to this link. Kumar explained it very clearly
http://obieeblog.wordpress.com/category/obiee/obiee-security/
Pls award points, if helpful
Regards,
Sarat Nallapati

Bulk insert into a table

What is the counter part for sql server BULK insert in Oracle.
I have gone through an existing thread for the same question Bulk Insert CSV file in Oracle 9i But here it is suggested to read from a file into and external table and then to create my own table reading from external table.
But I want to read directly from a file to an existing table in my database. How do I achieve this?
Thank you,
Praveen.

Refer to
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/server.101/b10825/ldr_modes.htm#i1008078
"During Direct Path load through SQL Loader, some constaints and all db triggers are disabled. With the conventional path load method, arrays of rows are inserted with standard SQL INSERT statements—integrity constraints and insert triggers are automatically applied.
After the rows are loaded and indexes rebuilt, any triggers that were disabled are automatically reenabled. The log file lists all triggers that were disabled for the load. There should not be any errors reenabling triggers."

Insert image into table

Please let me know how to insert images to table using SQLDeveloper?

Some history...
SQL Developer 1.2.1 actually does support loading BLOBs and it has an internal viewer that can display some, but not all, common extensions (e.g., jpeg images will display, but not flv - flash). The 1.2.1 UI is different than the 3.0/3.1 UI Jim describes in his blog post: double clicking on a BLOB cell in the Table Data tab causes it to display a "..." at the right-side of the cell. Clicking that takes you to the Edit Value dialog where Load/Save/View capability resides.
External editor support was in place at least by 2.1, but large BLOBs seem rather slow to load. Improved performance and the current UI appeared at least by 3.0, including the Pencil icon and the hyperlinks.
-Gary

Csv file processing using external table

Dear All,
Our database is oracle 10g r2 and OS is solaris
We would receive csv files to a particular directory on server each day.
File Format look like:
H00,SOURCE_NAME,FILE_CREATED_DATE
RECORD_TYPE,EMP_ID,EMP_NAME,EMP_DOB(DDMMYYYY),EMP_HIRE_DATE(DDMMYYYY),EMP_LOCATION
T00,RECORD_COUNT
EMPLOYEE TABLE STRUCTURE
EMP_ID                   NOT NULL    NUMBER ,
EMP_NAME            NOT NULL    VARCHAR2(10) ,
EMP_DOB                                  DATE,
EMP_HIRE_DATE   NOT NULL     DATE,
EMP_LOCATION                VARCHAR2(80)
Sample File:
H00,ABC,21092013
"R01",1,"EMP1","14021986","06072010","LOC1"
"R01",20000000000,"EMP2","14021-987","06072011",""
,***,"EMPPPPPPPPPPP3","14021988","060**012","LOC2"
"R01",4,4,"14021989","06072013",
T00,4
we need to validate each record excluding header and trailer for:
DATATYPE, LENGTH,OPTIONALITY, and other date validations such as EMP_HIRE_DATE can not be less than EMP_DOB
In case of any data errors we need to send a response file for corresponding source file.
we have predefined error codes to be sent in the response file.
ERR001    EMP_ID can not be null
ERR002    EMP_ID exceeds 10 digits
ERR003    EMP_ID is not a number
ERR004    EMP_NAME   has to be text
ERR005    EMP_NAME length can not exceed 10
ERR006    EMP_NAME   can not be null
ERR007    EMP_DOB is not a date
ERR008    EMP_DOB is not in ddmmyyyy format
ERR009    EMP_HIRE_DATE is not a date
ERR010    EMP_HIRE_DATE is not in ddmmyyyy format
ERR011    EMP_HIRE_DATE can not be null
ERR012    EMP_LOCATION    has to be text
ERR013    EMP_LOCATION   length can not exceed 80
ERR014    EMP_HIRE_DATE can not be less than EMP_DOB
ERR015    Field missing in the record
ERR016    More number of fields than allowed
1.Do I need to create external table before processing each file.(EMP1.txt,EMP2.txt)?
2.How to generate these error codes in case of respective failure scenarios and to log into an exception table?
3.response file needs to have entire record and a concatination of all the error codes in the next line.
4.what would be a better approach among
creating an external table with all char(2000) fields and writing a select statement
such as select * from ext_table where (emp id is not null and length(emp_id)<=10 and....to select only proper data);
or creating the external table to be same as employee table and creating a bad file? if this is the preferred how can I generate the custom error codes?
Could you please help me in achieving this!
Warm Regards,
Shankar.

You can do a one-time creation of an external table. After that, you can either overwrite the existing text file or alter the location. In the example below I have split your original sample file into two files, in order to demonstrate altering the location. You can make the external table all varchar2 fields as large as they need to be to accommodate all possible data. If you then create a staging table and rejects table of the same structure, you can create a trigger on the staging table such that, when you insert from the external table to the staging table, it inserts into either the employee table or rejects table with the concatenated error list. If you want this in a file, then you can just spool a select from the rejects table or use some other method such as utl_file. The following is a partial example. Another alternative would be to use SQL*Loader to load directly into the staging table without an external table.
SCOTT@orcl12c> HOST TYPE emp1.txt
H00,ABC,21092013
"R01",1,"EMP1","14021986","06072010","LOC1"
"R01",20000000000,"EMP2","14021-987","06072011",""
T00,4
SCOTT@orcl12c> HOST TYPE emp2.txt
H00,ABC,21092013
,***,"EMPPPPPPPPPPP3","14021988","060**012","LOC2"
"R01",4,4,"14021989","06072013",
T00,4
SCOTT@orcl12c> CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY my_dir AS 'c:\my_oracle_files'
2 /
Directory created.
SCOTT@orcl12c> CREATE TABLE external_table
2    (record_type       VARCHAR2(10),
3     emp_id            VARCHAR2(11),
4     emp_name          VARCHAR2(14),
5     emp_dob           VARCHAR2(10),
6     emp_hire_date     VARCHAR2(10),
7     emp_location      VARCHAR2(80))
8 ORGANIZATION external
9    (TYPE oracle_loader
10     DEFAULT DIRECTORY my_dir
11     ACCESS PARAMETERS
12       (RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
13        LOAD WHEN ((1: 3) != "H00" AND (1:3) != 'T00')
14        LOGFILE 'test.log'
15        FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LDRTRIM
16        MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
17        REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
18          (record_type, emp_id, emp_name, emp_dob, emp_hire_date, emp_location))
19     LOCATION ('emp1.txt'))
20 /
Table created.
SCOTT@orcl12c> CREATE TABLE staging
2    (record_type       VARCHAR2(10),
3     emp_id            VARCHAR2(11),
4     emp_name          VARCHAR2(14),
5     emp_dob           VARCHAR2(10),
6     emp_hire_date     VARCHAR2(10),
7     emp_location      VARCHAR2(80))
8 /
Table created.
SCOTT@orcl12c> CREATE TABLE employee
2    (emp_id          NUMBER       NOT NULL,
3     emp_name        VARCHAR2(10) NOT NULL,
4     emp_dob         DATE,
5     emp_hire_date   DATE,
6     emp_location    VARCHAR2(80))
7 /
Table created.
SCOTT@orcl12c> CREATE TABLE rejects
2    (record_type       VARCHAR2(10),
3     emp_id            VARCHAR2(11),
4     emp_name          VARCHAR2(14),
5     emp_dob           VARCHAR2(10),
6     emp_hire_date     VARCHAR2(10),
7     emp_location      VARCHAR2(80),
8     error_codes       VARCHAR2(4000))
9 /
Table created.
SCOTT@orcl12c> CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER staging_air
2    AFTER INSERT ON staging
3    FOR EACH ROW
4 DECLARE
5    v_rejects         NUMBER := 0;
6    v_error_codes VARCHAR2(4000);
7    v_num          NUMBER;
8    v_dob          DATE;
9    v_hire         DATE;
10 BEGIN
11    IF :NEW.emp_id IS NULL THEN
12      v_rejects := v_rejects + 1;
13      v_error_codes := v_error_codes || ',' || 'ERR001';
14    ELSIF LENGTH (:NEW.emp_id) > 10 THEN
15      v_rejects := v_rejects + 1;
16      v_error_codes := v_error_codes || ',' || 'ERR002';
17    END IF;
18    BEGIN
19      v_num := TO_NUMBER (:NEW.emp_id);
20    EXCEPTION
21      WHEN value_error THEN
22        v_rejects := v_rejects + 1;
23        v_error_codes := v_error_codes || ',' || 'ERR003';
24    END;
25    IF :NEW.emp_name IS NULL THEN
26      v_rejects := v_rejects + 1;
27      v_error_codes := v_error_codes || ',' || 'ERR006';
28    ELSIF LENGTH (:NEW.emp_name) > 10 THEN
29      v_rejects := v_rejects + 1;
30      v_error_codes := v_error_codes || ',' || 'ERR005';
31    END IF;
32    BEGIN
33      v_dob := TO_DATE (:NEW.emp_dob, 'ddmmyyyy');
34    EXCEPTION
35      WHEN OTHERS THEN
36        v_rejects := v_rejects + 1;
37        v_error_codes := v_error_codes || ',' || 'ERR008';
38    END;
39    BEGIN
40      IF :NEW.emp_hire_date IS NULL THEN
41        v_rejects := v_rejects + 1;
42        v_error_codes := v_error_codes || ',' || 'ERR011';
43      ELSE
44        v_hire := TO_DATE (:NEW.emp_hire_date, 'ddmmyyyy');
45      END IF;
46    EXCEPTION
47      WHEN OTHERS THEN
48        v_rejects := v_rejects + 1;
49        v_error_codes := v_error_codes || ',' || 'ERR010';
50    END;
51    IF LENGTH (:NEW.emp_location) > 80 THEN
52      v_rejects := v_rejects + 1;
53      v_error_codes := v_error_codes || ',' || 'ERR013';
54    END IF;
55    IF v_hire IS NOT NULL AND v_dob IS NOT NULL AND v_hire < v_dob THEN
56        v_rejects := v_rejects + 1;
57        v_error_codes := v_error_codes || ',' || 'ERR014';
58    END IF;
59    IF :NEW.emp_id IS NULL OR :NEW.emp_name IS NULL OR :NEW.emp_dob IS NULL
60       OR :NEW.emp_hire_date IS NULL OR :NEW.emp_location IS NULL THEN
61        v_rejects := v_rejects + 1;
62        v_error_codes := v_error_codes || ',' || 'ERR015';
63    END IF;
64    IF v_rejects = 0 THEN
65      INSERT INTO employee (emp_id, emp_name, emp_dob, emp_hire_date, emp_location)
66      VALUES (:NEW.emp_id, :NEW.emp_name,
67              TO_DATE (:NEW.emp_dob, 'ddmmyyyy'), TO_DATE (:NEW.emp_hire_date, 'ddmmyyyy'),
68              :NEW.emp_location);
69    ELSE
70      v_error_codes := LTRIM (v_error_codes, ',');
71      INSERT INTO rejects
72        (record_type,
73         emp_id, emp_name, emp_dob, emp_hire_date, emp_location,
74         error_codes)
75      VALUES
76        (:NEW.record_type,
77         :NEW.emp_id, :NEW.emp_name, :NEW.emp_dob, :NEW.emp_hire_date, :NEW.emp_location,
78         v_error_codes);
79    END IF;
80 END staging_air;
81 /
Trigger created.
SCOTT@orcl12c> SHOW ERRORS
No errors.
SCOTT@orcl12c> INSERT INTO staging SELECT * FROM external_table
2 /
2 rows created.
SCOTT@orcl12c> ALTER TABLE external_table LOCATION ('emp2.txt')
2 /
Table altered.
SCOTT@orcl12c> INSERT INTO staging SELECT * FROM external_table
2 /
2 rows created.
SCOTT@orcl12c> SELECT * FROM employee
2 /
    EMP_ID EMP_NAME   EMP_DOB         EMP_HIRE_DATE   EMP_LOCATION
         1 EMP1       Fri 14-Feb-1986 Tue 06-Jul-2010 LOC1
1 row selected.
SCOTT@orcl12c> COLUMN error_codes NEWLINE
SCOTT@orcl12c> SELECT * FROM rejects
2 /
RECORD_TYP EMP_ID      EMP_NAME       EMP_DOB    EMP_HIRE_D EMP_LOCATION
ERROR_CODES
R01        20000000000 EMP2           14021-987 06072011
ERR002,ERR008,ERR015
           ***         EMPPPPPPPPPPP3 14021988   060**012   LOC2
ERR003,ERR005,ERR010
R01        4           4              14021989   06072013
ERR015
3 rows selected.

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