SQL* Loader Loading specific column from CSV file to the table

Question

Dear All,
Iam Loading specific column from .CSV file to the oracle table.
Could pls help how i can load only that cols into the table
Eg: CSV file having id, Frst_name,Last_name, Address,Phone,Insurance etc
out of this I want to load only Frst_name,Last_name columns to oracle table say fname and lname.
Thanks in Adv.
Junu

Answer 1

Lily,
I made some changes to your table def but you will get the idea
-- Table EMPLOYEE
CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE
  EMPID        NUMBER                           NOT NULL,
  EMPNICKNAME  VARCHAR2(10 BYTE)                    NULL,
  FNAME        VARCHAR2(20 BYTE)                NOT NULL,
  MI           VARCHAR2(20 BYTE)                    NULL,
  LNAME        VARCHAR2(20 BYTE)                NOT NULL,
  FULLNAME     VARCHAR2(20 BYTE)                NOT NULL,
  HIREDATE     DATE                             DEFAULT SYSDATE               NOT NULL
--  data file employee.dat
1,amy,b,amy b
2,cindy,d,cindy d
3,eric,f,eric f
4,gary,h,gary
-- Control file : Employee.ctl ( you can use truncate, replace or append , see sqlldr for more options)
load data
Truncate into table employee
fields terminated by ","
optionally enclosed by '"'
TRAILING NULLCOLS
empId INTEGER EXTERNAL,
FName char(20),
LName char(20),
FullName char(30)
now to load use following or you can speicify infile in control fle
sqlldr username/passowrd control=employee.ctl  data=employee.dat log=employee.log
{code}
Hope this help.
Regards