Remotly acess of SQL loader

We have two oracle servers.
Server A.
Server B.
And end user machine.on this machine we only has net service with server A.
We select and insert our data from server B using Db link.
Now on end user machine as I mention we don’t have connection service of server B then how I run my SQL loader utility from end user using DB link or some thing else in order to load data into server B.
Thanks
faheem

I don't have an environment at the moment to test this, but I would expect that your SQL*Loader control file could simply refer to target_table@database_link or that you could create a synonym on A for target_table@database_link and load the data into that synonym. Assuming, of course, that your data file is relatively vanilla (I'd expect that loading into LOBs over a database link would fail, for example).
Again, I'm not guaranteeing this will work, but I don't see any reason off the top of my head that it wouldn't.
Justin

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Microsoft windows XP profissional
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append
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CONTRACT_END,
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QTY,
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LINE_AMOUNT,
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PRICE_INCREASED_DATE,
PERCENTAGE_INCREASED,
ORIGINAL_CONTRACT_AMOUNT,
NEW_CONTRACT_AMOUNT,
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i_user_id="$2"
i_user_name="$3"
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i_ftp_user_password="$7"
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ascii
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SQL*Loader: Release 10.1.0.5.0 - Production on Thu Dec 3 01:32:08 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Control File: XXOKS_PRICE_INCR_LOAD.ctl
Data File: /oesapp/applmgr/GIS11/apps/apps_st/appl/xadp/12.0.0/data/CPIU/in/XXOKS_Price_Increase.csv
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Discard File: none specified
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Number to skip: 0
Errors allowed: 50
Bind array: 64 rows, maximum of 256000 bytes
Continuation: none specified
Path used: Conventional
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LEGACY_NUMBER NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
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CUSTOMER_NAME NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
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CONTRACT_NUMBER NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
CONTRACT_START_DATE NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
CONTRACT_END NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
REQUEST_LINE_ID NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
LINE_START_DATE NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
LINE_END_DATE NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
ITEM_NUMBER NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
ITEM_DESCRIPTION NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
UNIT_PRICE NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
QTY NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
NEW_UNIT_PRICE NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
LINE_AMOUNT NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
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PRICE_INCREASED_DATE NEXT * , O(") CHARACTER
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Total logical records rejected: 0
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CPU time was: 00:00:00.04
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