Read/Parse file in PL/SQL

How can I read and parse the text file (fixed length, csv or comma-delimited) in a PL/SQL procedure:
987698,Kivin K Jones,10727 North Mountier Street,Potomac,MD,20854
454678,John H Smith,58812 Normandie Farms Drive,Rockville,MD,20854
I know I must use the UTL_FILE package. Any help would be appreciated.

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Read XML File Using PL/SQL

Hi,
I have to read a XML file using PL/SQL. I am new to this so please explain in easy steps.
Regards,
SF

STEP - 2
SQL>
SQL> DECLARE
2    l_ctx dbms_xmlsave.ctxType ;
3    l_xml CLOB :=
4 '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
5 <NewDataSet>
6      <ROW>
7          <DEPARTMENT>BA52</DEPARTMENT>
8          <PCS_CONTRACT_TAG>MD-3GSM</PCS_CONTRACT_TAG>
9          <LOCATION>Australia</LOCATION>
10          <MAY_2006>21668</MAY_2006>
11      </ROW>
12      <ROW>
13          <DEPARTMENT>BA501</DEPARTMENT>
14          <PCS_CONTRACT_TAG>MD-3GSM</PCS_CONTRACT_TAG>
15          <LOCATION>China</LOCATION>
16          <MAY_2006>8166</MAY_2006>
17      </ROW>
18      <ROW>
19          <DEPARTMENT>BA522</DEPARTMENT>
20          <PCS_CONTRACT_TAG>MD-3GSM</PCS_CONTRACT_TAG>
21          <LOCATION>Australia</LOCATION>
22          <MAY_2006>21668</MAY_2006>
23      </ROW>
24 </NewDataSet>' ;
25 BEGIN
26      l_ctx := dbms_xmlsave.newContext(targetTable => 'XML_INSERT');
27      dbms_output.put_line(dbms_xmlsave.insertXML(ctxHdl => l_ctx,
28                                                  xDoc   => l_xml) ||
29                           ' rows inserted.');
30      dbms_xmlsave.closeContext(l_ctx);
31 END;
32 /
3 rows inserted.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.Regards.
Satyaki De.

Reading XML file from PL/SQL

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <V21>
- <ToAddress>
+ <User>
<Emailid>[email protected]</Emailid>
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<Emailid>[email protected]</Emailid>
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- <FromAddress>
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Can you throw in some light on how to read XML in pl/sql in oracle 9i?Simplest example:
SQL> DECLARE
2 xml XMLTYPE := XMLTYPE(
3 '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
4 <V21>
5 <ToAddress>
6 <User>
7 <Emailid>[email protected]</Emailid>
8 </User>
9 <UserGroup2>
10 <Emailid>[email protected]</Emailid>
11 </UserGroup2>
12 </ToAddress>
13 <FromAddress>
14 <Emailid>[email protected]</Emailid>
15 </FromAddress>
16 <HelpDeskNumber>99999999</HelpDeskNumber>
17 <MailFormat>text/plain</MailFormat>
18 </V21>') ;
19 BEGIN
20 dbms_output.put_line(xml.extract('/V21/ToAddress/User/Emailid/text()').getStringVal()) ;
21 END ;
22 /
[email protected]
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As we all know that the SQL Server creates STACK DUMP (.mdmp) files on SQL Server crashes. In an attempt to postmortem the issue, how to open these .mdmp files. Tried to open with Notepad/wordpad, no luck. They are not supporting the formats.
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You need to install windows debugger tools inorder to analyze dump files. Its not an easy task and different types of dumps have different way of debugging.
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http://troubleshootingsql.com/tag/stack-dump/
http://curah.microsoft.com/74209/sql-server-dump-analysis
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XML Parsing error in PL/SQL

Hello,
I have some problem in parsing Mircrosoft OpenXML file using Oracle 10g Release2 XML Parser for PL/SQL.
I use dbms_xmlparser, dbms_xmldom, dbms_xslprocessor packages
OpenXML file use "w:" as namespace, so every element has prefix "w:" like
<w:wordDocument ..>
<w:body..>
<w:p..>
<w:r..>
<w:t..>
My job is to read OpenXML file inside PL/SQL code, parse it, and load it into the corresponding table.
Here is my PL/SQL code.
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doc dbms_xmldom.DOMDocument;
node_list dbms_xmldom.DOMNodeList;
l_node dbms_xmldom.DOMNode;
one_element dbms_xmldom.DOMElement;
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BEGIN
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LOOP
p( xpath.valueOf(dbms_xmldom.item(node_list, j), '.'), nl=>FALSE );
END LOOP;
Here is the error message.
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-31011: XML parsing failed
ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML processing
LPX-00601: Invalid token in: '/w:wordDocument/w:body/w:p/w:r/w:t
[starts-with(., "!")]'
ORA-06512: at "XDB.DBMS_XSLPROCESSOR", line 900
ORA-06512: at "XDB.DBMS_XSLPROCESSOR", line 928
ORA-06512: at "SYSTEM.XPATH", line 173
ORA-06512: at "SYSTEM.XPATH", line 179
ORA-06512: at line 38
I really don't know why I got this error message nor how to solve it. If I remove "w:" manually within open xml file, then parsing works well. I guess XML parser for PL/SQL doesn't recognize ":" or maybe doesn't support namespace?
My question is
1. In oracle 10g release2, XML Parser for PL/SQL can recognize ":" in the element name? or does it support namespace? If not, is there any workaround for solving this problem?
2. How can I make XML Parser recognize ":" in the element name in the xml file or How can I declare namespace in the PL/SQL code so that PL/SQL xml parser can recognize namespace like "w:"?
In fact, I don't use XML DB and what I want to do is just to load XML file into the relational table and some parts of whole XML file will be inserted into the CLOB in the table.
Should I really use XML DB to do the above job?
Any comment or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

This works correctly. I added prefixes to your extract path. (I had to add the xmlns:xsi to your root node also.)
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-- Local variables here
   doc_in       dbms_xmldom.DOMDocument;
   aNodeList    dbms_xmldom.DOMNodeList;
begin
-- Test statements here
doc_in := dbms_xmldom.newdomdocument(
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' ||
'<ap:Collection xmlns:ap="http://www.abc.com/ap" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.abc.com/ap template.xsd"> ' ||
'<ap:info>' ||
'<ap:data name="Barbie" age="3">' ||
'</ap:data>' ||
'</ap:info>' ||
'</ap:Collection>');
aNodeList := dbms_xslprocessor.selectNodes(dbms_xmldom.makeNode(doc_in),
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[Error] Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Setup. Error reading from file msdbdata.mdf

Hi all
I'm trying to install SQL 2008 Express on my Computer: Hp compact DX7300 Slim tower.
and get this error:
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Setup
The following error has occurred:Error reading from file d:\8268cd7b247d294de359c9\x86\setup\sql_engine_core_inst_msi\PFiles\SqlServr\MSSQL.X\MSSQL\Binn\Template\msdbdata.mdf. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
Click 'Retry' to retry the failed action, or click 'Cancel' to cancel this action and continue setup.
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&ProdVer=10.0.1823.0&EvtType=0xF45F6601%25401201%25401
Log file
Overall summary:
Final result: SQL Server installation failed. To continue, investigate the reason for the failure, correct the problem, uninstall SQL Server, and then rerun SQL Server Setup.
Exit code (Decimal): -2068643839
Exit facility code: 1203
Exit error code: 1
Exit message: SQL Server installation failed. To continue, investigate the reason for the failure, correct the problem, uninstall SQL Server, and then rerun SQL Server Setup.
Start time: 2014-12-09 23:22:03
End time: 2014-12-09 23:40:28
Requested action: Install
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Exception help link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkId=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&ProdVer=10.0.1823.0
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OS version: Windows Vista
OS service pack: Service Pack 1
OS region: United States
OS language: English (United States)
OS architecture: x86
Process architecture: 32 Bit
OS clustered: No
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Product Instance Instance ID Feature
Language Edition Version Clustered
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SQLProductFamilyCode: {628F8F38-600E-493D-9946-F4178F20A8A9}
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Installation edition: EXPRESS
User Input Settings:
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ADDCURRENTUSERASSQLADMIN: False
AGTSVCACCOUNT: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
AGTSVCPASSWORD: *****
AGTSVCSTARTUPTYPE: Disabled
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ASCOLLATION: Latin1_General_CI_AS
ASCONFIGDIR: Config
ASDATADIR: Data
ASDOMAINGROUP: <empty>
ASLOGDIR: Log
ASPROVIDERMSOLAP: 1
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ASSVCPASSWORD: *****
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Hi Foreverduy,
Before you run SQL Server 2008 express setup, make sure that you have installed Windows installer 4.5 and.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 manually. For more information about the process, please refer to the article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506(v=sql.100).aspx. Moreover, please turn off all the third-party softwares which could prohibit the installation process.
According to your error message, the issue could be due to that your account has no rights to install SQL Server, or the corruption on the media.
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folder.
However, if the file doesn't exist in the extraction, the media could be corrupt. Please download the
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SQL> with t as
2   (select xmltype('<AgileData>
3    <AutomatedTransferOrders uniqueId="11761:6243470">
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44        <Workflow>BDA Program Prototype Workflow</Workflow>
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