ORA-01843: not a valid month, external table select fails on date column

Question

Hi,
I created an external table as follows:
CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY sales_feeds AS '/backup/oracle/feeds';
Directory created.
CREATE TABLE salesfeed_external_table
          PROD_ID               NUMBER
        , CUST_ID               NUMBER
        , TIME_ID               DATE
        , CHANNEL_ID            NUMBER
        , PROMO_ID              NUMBER
        , QUANTITY_SOLD         NUMBER(10,2)
        , AMOUNT_SOLD           NUMBER(10,2)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
        TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
        DEFAULT DIRECTORY sales_feeds
        ACCESS PARAMETERS
                RECORDS DELIMITED BY newline
                FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
        LOCATION ('salesfeed.dat')
REJECT LIMIT 0
Table created.I then create that external flat file salesfeed.dat as folows
set echo off
set feedback off
set linesize 100
set pagesize 0
set head off
set sqlprompt ''
set trimspool on
spool on
spool /backup/oracle/feeds/salesfeed.dat
select PROD_ID||','||CUST_ID||','||TIME_ID||','||CHANNEL_ID||','||PROMO_ID||','||QUANTITY_SOLD||','||AMOUNT_SOLD
FROM salesfeed where rownum = 1;
spool off
exit
cat salesfeed.dat
18,3131,21/03/1998 00:00:00,3,999,1,2600.76Note only one row at the moment (diagonising)
Try to read it
select * from salesfeed_external_table
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEFETCH callout
ORA-30653: reject limit reachedThe log shows:
cat SALESFEED_EXTERNAL_TABLE_1302.log
LOG file opened at 11/24/11 12:16:02
Field Definitions for table SALESFEED_EXTERNAL_TABLE
  Record format DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
  Data in file has same endianness as the platform
  Rows with all null fields are accepted
  Fields in Data Source:
    PROD_ID                         CHAR (255)
      Terminated by ","
      Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader
    CUST_ID                         CHAR (255)
      Terminated by ","
      Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader
    TIME_ID                         CHAR (255)
      Terminated by ","
      Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader
    CHANNEL_ID                      CHAR (255)
      Terminated by ","
      Trim whitespace same as SQL Loader
    PROMO_ID                        CHAR (255)
      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
error processing column TIME_ID in row 1 for datafile /backup/oracle/feeds/salesfeed.dat
ORA-01843: not a valid monthI checked my nls date format etc:
select * from nls_session_parameters;
PARAMETER                      VALUE
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
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP            FALSEAny ideas?
Thanks,
Mich
Edited by: Mich Talebzadeh on 24-Nov-2011 04:19

Answer 1

Thanks
The following now works
CREATE TABLE salesfeed_external_table
          PROD_ID               NUMBER
        , CUST_ID               NUMBER
        , TIME_ID               DATE
        , CHANNEL_ID            NUMBER
        , PROMO_ID              NUMBER
        , QUANTITY_SOLD         NUMBER(10,2)
        , AMOUNT_SOLD           NUMBER(10,2)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
        TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
        DEFAULT DIRECTORY sales_feeds
        ACCESS PARAMETERS
                RECORDS DELIMITED BY newline
                FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
                MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
                (         PROD_ID
                        , CUST_ID
                        , TIME_ID DATE  'dd/mm/yyyy HH24:MI:SS'
                        , CHANNEL_ID
                        , PROMO_ID
                        , QUANTITY_SOLD
                        , AMOUNT_SOLD
        LOCATION ('salesfeed.dat')
REJECT LIMIT 0
select * from salesfeed_external_table;
   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