SQL Loader, concatenating columns

Is it possible to concatenate several columns in a comma-delimited input file into one column in the database.
For example:
INPUT FILE:
1234,Description 1,Description2
DATABASE FILE (has 2 columns)
1.
Product Number (to be populated from '1234' in the input file)
2.
Description (to be populated from 'Description 1 Description 2' in the input file)
Please let me know how to do this. I was trying column object but it doesn't work.

reference23 position(183:183) CHAR,
SOURCE position(183:194) CHAR NULLIF SOURCE=BLANKS,If you see the position for source column it should be 184 and not 183. I think it is a typo or you missed to spot it or I could be wrong. Just a thought
Regards
Raj
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SQL*Loader 는 이들을 통해 서로 다른 physical record 로 인식한다.
이들을 load 하기 위해 사용되는 option 은
- concatenate
- continueif
- file processing option: FIX (PRE: 1012555.6 PRS: 2060647.6)
- file processing option: VAR (PRE: 1011372.6 PRS: 2059405.6)
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Control File: test.ctl
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infile 'test.dat'
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into table test
(col1 char(2000))
Data File: 'test.dat'
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COL1
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예제2) continueif 를 사용하기
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load data
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into table test
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*11111111111
*22222222222
*33333333333
*44444444444
*55555555555
66666666666
*77777777777
*88888888888
999999999999
*aaaaaaaaaaa
*bbbbbbbbbbb
cccccccccccc
*ddddddddddd
*eeeeeeeeeee
*fffffffffff
*ggggggggggg
*hhhhhhhhhhh
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COL1
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777777777778888888888899999999999
aaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbccccccccccc
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: 불가능하다 (RTSS Bulletin: 103235.426)
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"FIELD IN DATA FILE EXCEEDED MAXIMUM SPECIFIED LENGTH"
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예제)
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Z
X
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abcde 98,234.23+
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예제)
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43023423
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다음은 zoned values의 map 이다:
{ABCDEFGHI}JKLMNOPQR0123456789
++++++++++----------++++++++++
{ABCDEFGHI}JKLMNOPQR
01234567890123456789
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byte 이다. [3C]의 경우도 같다.
The kernel 은 sing nibble 의 여부를 ttcp2n() 을 통해 check한다.
만일 0x0a, ..., 0x0f 중의 하나가 아니면 ORA-1488 error 를 발생시킨다.
<주의> BUG:296890:
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packed decimal 을 support 하지 않는다.
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예제)
load data
infile *
truncate
into table test
fields terminated by ','
(col1 date "mm/dd/yy" nullif col1='0', col2)
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0,12345
11/11/95,12345
0,12345
11/11/95,12345
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COL1 COL2
12345
11-NOV-95 12345
12345
11-NOV-95 12345
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: 불가능하다. 그러나 workaround 로는
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12345 12345
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만들려면 ?
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16) WHEN 절에 OR 를 사용할수 있는가 ?
: 불가능하다 그러나 workaround 로는
예제) 만일 where (col1=12345 OR col1=54321) AND col2='rowena'경우에
data 를 insert 하고자 하면
load data
infile *
truncate
into table test
when col1 = '12345' and col2='rowena'
(col1 position(1:5) integer external, col2 position(7:12) char)
into table test
when col1 = '54321' and col2='rowena'
(col1 position(1:5) integer external, col2 position(7:12) char)
begindata
12345 rowena
43234 rowena
54321 rowena
(즉, OR를 갖지 못하나, 같은 table 에 두개의 when 은 가질수있다.)
SQLDBA> select * from test;
COL1 COL2
12345 rowena
54321 rowena
2 rows selected.
17) delimiter 로 ','를 사용하였는데 data 에 ','가 포함된 경우는 ?
: 두 번 지정한다.
예제)
load 할 data 가 col1, rowena, rowena, col3 이고
datafile 이 다음과 같은 경우
col1, rowena,, rowena, col3
select * from table:
COL1 COL2 COL3
col1 rowena, rowena col3
18) 어떻게 하면 commit 을 덜 사용할 수 있나 ?
: rows 나 bindsize를 사용한다.
그러나 bindsize 가 적은 경우 bindsize는 rows 를 많이 적재할 수
있으므로 항상 1 bindsize 에 몇 개의 rows 가 set 되었는지에 관계
없이 bindsize에 commit 이 수행된다.
Reference Document
------------------

hi,
pls take a look at this document
http://www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archives/00000020.htm
regards,

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