ODI PDF to CLOB column

Hi,
How should I read a PDF content from some file share location and update a CLOB column in target DB.
My Source is PDF file and target is Oracle DB.
thanks
Sanjeeva

Easy way of getting LOBs is via external table, this external table below will give you all the file names in a file with name 'files_to_load.dat' and a BLOB column for each file.
Directories used in external table;
create directory dir_data as 'd:\\temp\\data';
create directory dir_out_log as 'd:\\temp\\logs';
create directory dir_out_bad as 'd:\\temp\\logs';
External table definition;
CREATE TABLE blob_data_et
FILE_NM varchar2(120),
file_data blob
organization external
type oracle_loader
default directory dir_data
access parameters
records delimited by NEWLINE
skip 1
logfile dir_out_log:'dir_data.log'
badfile dir_out_bad:'dir_data.bad'
nodiscardfile
fields terminated by ','
missing field values are null
FILE_NM CHAR(120)
column transforms
FILE_DATA FROM LOBFILE (FILE_NM) FROM (dir_data)
location (dir_data:'files_to_load.dat')
reject limit 0
noparallel
nomonitoring;
Cheers
David

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user605489 wrote:
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Thanks,
Santosh

You cannot compare directly a CLOB column with a VARCHAR2 column. In your case you don't need to do such comparison because Oracle consider zero length strings as null values:
SQL> create table my_clob(data int, databody clob);
Table created.
SQL> insert into my_clob values(1, null);
1 row created.
SQL> insert into my_clob values(2, '');
1 row created.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
SQL> select * from my_clob where databody is null;
      DATA
DATABODY
         1
         2About null values in Oracle, please read http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e26088/sql_elements005.htm#SQLRF30037.

Creation of view with clob column in select and group by clause.

Hi,
We are trying to migrate a view from sql server2005 to oracle 10g. It has clob column which is used in group by clause. How can the same be achived in oracle 10g.
Below is the sql statament used in creating view aling with its datatypes.
CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW "TEST" ("CONTENT_ID", "TITLE", "KEYWORDS", "CONTENT", "ISPOPUP", "CREATED", "SEARCHSTARTDATE", "SEARCHENDDATE", "HITS", "TYPE", "CREATEDBY", "UPDATED", "ISDISPLAYED", "UPDATEDBY", "AVERAGERATING", "VOTES") AS
SELECT content_ec.content_id,
          content_ec.title,
          content_ec.keywords,
          content_ec.content content ,
          content_ec.ispopup,
          content_ec.created,
          content_ec.searchstartdate,
          content_ec.searchenddate,
        COUNT(contenttracker_ec.contenttracker_id) hits,
          contenttypes_ec.type,
          users_ec_1.username createdby,
          Backup_Latest.created updated,
          Backup_Latest.isdisplayed,
          users_ec_1.username updatedby,
          guideratings.averagerating,
          guideratings.votes
     FROM users_ec users_ec_1
            JOIN Backup_Latest
             ON users_ec_1.USER_ID = Backup_Latest.USER_ID
            RIGHT JOIN content_ec
            JOIN contenttypes_ec
             ON content_ec.contenttype_id = contenttypes_ec.contenttype_id
             ON Backup_Latest.content_id = content_ec.content_id
            LEFT JOIN guideratings
             ON content_ec.content_id = guideratings.content_id
            LEFT JOIN contenttracker_ec
             ON content_ec.content_id = contenttracker_ec.content_id
            LEFT JOIN users_ec users_ec_2
             ON content_ec.user_id = users_ec_2.USER_ID
     GROUP BY content_ec.content_id,
     content_ec.title,
     content_ec.keywords,
     to_char(content_ec.content) ,
     content_ec.ispopup,
     content_ec.created,
     content_ec.searchstartdate,
     content_ec.searchenddate,
     contenttypes_ec.type,
     users_ec_1.username,
     Backup_Latest.created,
     Backup_Latest.isdisplayed,
     users_ec_1.username,
     guideratings.averagerating,
     guideratings.votes;
Column Name      Data TYpe
CONTENT_ID     NUMBER(10,0)
TITLE          VARCHAR2(50)
KEYWORDS     VARCHAR2(100)
CONTENT          CLOB
ISPOPUP          NUMBER(1,0)
CREATED          TIMESTAMP(6)
SEARCHSTARTDATE     TIMESTAMP(6)
SEARCHENDDATE     TIMESTAMP(6)
HITS          NUMBER
TYPE          VARCHAR2(50)
CREATEDBY     VARCHAR2(20)
UPDATED          TIMESTAMP(6)
ISDISPLAYED     NUMBER(1,0)
UPDATEDBY     VARCHAR2(20)
AVERAGERATING     NUMBER
VOTES          NUMBERAny help realyy appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Edited by: user512743 on Dec 10, 2008 10:46 PM

Hello,
Specifically, this should be asked in the
ASP.Net MVC forum on forums.asp.net.
Karl
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