Oracle external table

Question

Hi,
i am loading a txt file which has date fields along with other number and varchar types.
CREATE TABLE carp_commission_temp (
sales_channel VARCHAR2(30),
dealer_id NUMBER(18),
dealer_name VARCHAR2(64),
installer_certification NUMBER(10),
customer_id VARCHAR2(20),
customer_account1 VARCHAR2(20),
customer_account2 NUMBER(18),
first_name VARCHAR2(50),
order_date DATE
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
(TYPE oracle_loader
DEFAULT DIRECTORY load_data
ACCESS PARAMETERS
(RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|'
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
LRTRIM
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
(sales_channel,
dealer_id,
dealer_name,
installer_certification,
customer_id,
customer_account1,
customer_account2,
first_name,
order_date
LOCATION ('dsi_test.txt')
PARALLEL
For the date fields i keep getting INVALID MONTH error.
Is there a way in need to format this column.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try this
drop table ext_Tab;
CREATE TABLE ext_tab (
empno CHAR(4),
ename CHAR(20),
job CHAR(20),
deptno CHAR(2),
bdate date)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL (
TYPE oracle_loader
DEFAULT DIRECTORY testdir
ACCESS PARAMETERS (
RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
BADFILE 'bad_%a_%p.bad'
LOGFILE 'log_%a_%p.log'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
empno CHAR(4),
ename CHAR(20),
job CHAR(20),
deptno CHAR(2),
bdate char(10) date_format date mask  "DD/MM/YYYY"))
LOCATION ('demo1.dat')
PARALLEL
REJECT LIMIT 0
NOMONITORING;
for more info http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/et_concepts.htm