Sqlldr question

hi all,
why would sqlldr issue the following error mesages:
SQL*Loader-500: Unable to oen file (C:\oratest\20080318.dat)
SQL*Loader-503: file not found
SQL*Loader-509: System error: The system cannot find the file specified.
SQL-Loader-2026: the load was aborted because SQL Loader cannot continue
when all I wanted to do is upload a file that is called 20080318.
So, the path would be C:\oratest\2008318
Do I really need an extesion?
I see that any name I choose for the file, if I don't specify an extension, the errors above will be alway about not being able to find "whateverFileName.DAT" so by default it is looking for a .DAT file. Is there any way to avoid this? I don't want to be forced to stick extensions for all my files.
Thanks,
kowalsky

Sorry for the confusion,
load data
infile 'C:\oratest\20080318'
BADFILE 'c:\oratest\badsyno.txt'
APPEND
into table synotest
fields terminated by "|" optionally enclosed by '"'
(id4, cityname, maxtemp, mintemp, precip DEFAULTIF(precip = "TR") , sog)
My problem is that if I leave the control file as it is, sqlldr will issue the error messages from my first post. It seems if I leave the file without extension it will always look for 20080318.dat - and obviously it is not going to find it, since my file is called 20080318.
On the other hand, if I change the file name to 20080318.txt or 20080318.dat, then even if I leave the infile with C:\oratest\20080318 it will work just fine. So, it seems I need some extension in the file's name.
My question is can I avoid doing this? I have lots of files and I wouldn't want to go and add extension to them, and somehow I guess this can be done with some trick in the control file ...
thanks,
kowalsky

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COMPANY                            NEXT     *   , O(") CHARACTER
CLASSNAME                         NEXT     *   , O(") CHARACTER
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{code}
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Hello,
I just loaded following data successfully in my_data table using the same control file I posted. Yes it will evaluate "" as null and replace with none, remember in control file you have this option, "optionally enclosed by '"'.
#my_data.dat
"myname1", "attribname1"
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{code}
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{code}
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Bad File:     mydata.bad
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Number to load: ALL
Number to skip: 0
Errors allowed: 50
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Continuation:    none specified
Path used:      Conventional
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Insert option in effect for this table: INSERT
TRAILING NULLCOLS option in effect
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MY_NAME                             FIRST    30   , O(") CHARACTER
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0 Rows not loaded due to data errors.
0 Rows not loaded because all WHEN clauses were failed.
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Space allocated for bind array:                  18560 bytes(64 rows)
Read   buffer bytes: 1048576
Total logical records skipped:          0
Total logical records read:             4
Total logical records rejected:         0
Total logical records discarded:        0
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Elapsed time was:     00:00:00.98
CPU time was:         00:00:00.10
{code}
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xmltype(xmldata)
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xmldata LOBFILE (CONSTANT ipo.xml)
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Another question I have is, how do we know how many records (0's) to specify in the control file? In this case there's only one but when real files are used we won't know how many are in the file.
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The concept was "Don't use SQL*Loader to parse XML".
You can use SQL*Loader to load an entire XML document into the DB. That is fine. You can do the same via BFILENAME to read in files from disk as well.
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Message was edited by:
Toin
Fixed a typo.
Message was edited by:
Toin

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Thanks.
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user12044491 wrote:
currently i am working on oracle release 10g R2.
i am not very much sure whether all CTL option are available in the external table.Before you decide on the method you should clearly understand the following. SQL*Loader is client side tool while job and external table are server side tools. Therefore, unless you are connecting to oracle from database server or file you are loading is accessible from database server, neither job nor external table will help you. And now back to your question - yes, not all SQL*Loader features are available for external tables but most of the time there is a way around it.
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