Read from xls file and put it in a table

Question

Hi,
I've an xls file while is having 8 cells with some thousands of rows. i've to write a procedure to read that file and put it in a table(each cell as each column). pls help me how to proceed. i'm using oracle 9i
Regards
Abdul Muthalef

Answer 1

as Gasparotto said, copy the csv file to the database server.
create a directory object on the database.
create directory dir_temp as 'e:\mydir'
grant read, write on directory dir_Temp to <user>
and then map this csv file to the external table using the below syntax.
CREATE TABLE tab_hierarchy
node_id          NUMBER,
parent_id     NUMBER,
description      VARCHAR2(255)
ORGANIZATIOn EXTERNAL
     TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
     DEFAULT DIRECTORY dir_temp
     ACCESS PARAMETERS
     records delimited by newline
     fields terminated by ','
     (node_id,parent_id,description)
     LOCATION ('tree.csv')
PARALLEL
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;in the above code, replace the filename under the LOCATION with your csv file name.
now you should be just able to do select on this table and insert to the other main tbale.