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Populate an Oracle table from external.... [message #52508]

Fri, 26 July 2002 08:56

Nita
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Registered: March 2002

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How do I populate a new Oracle table from an external data source?

I'm using 8i on a W2K Server.

Many thanks for any help.

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Re: Populate an Oracle table from external.... [message #52510 is a reply to message #52508]

Fri, 26 July 2002 09:47

Sanjay
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Registered: July 2000

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What external data source ? More details please.

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Re: Populate an Oracle table from external.... [message #52512 is a reply to message #52508]

Fri, 26 July 2002 11:10

sai sreenivas jeedigunta
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Registered: November 2001

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If the external data u r talking about..is in the .txt files we can get that data into Tables using the UTL_FILE Package/SQL * Loader..refer to those documentation for furthur details...

sai

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Re: Populate an Oracle table from external.... [message #52516 is a reply to message #52508]

Fri, 26 July 2002 11:35

Radek
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Registered: April 2002

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You can check out sql loader too. It is utility that is able to import text files into db.
Radek

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Re: Populate an Oracle table from external.... [message #52543 is a reply to message #52508]

Mon, 29 July 2002 07:04

Sanjay
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Registered: July 2000

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Output to a csv file and use SQLLoader to populate oracle database.

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Re: Populate an Oracle table from external.... [message #53203 is a reply to message #52543]

Tue, 03 September 2002 02:36

simon molan
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Registered: September 2002

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I am doing some class work and the question is asking me to
Populate the department table with data from the dept table. Include only columns that you need????

Name Null? Type
------------------------------- -------- ----
COLUMN_NAME VARCHAR2(20)
DEPARTMENTID NOT NULL NUMBER(7)
NAME VARCHAR2(14)

Name Null? Type
------------------------------- -------- ----
DEPTNO NOT NULL NUMBER(2)
DNAME CHAR(14)
LOC CHAR(13)

what is my next step can anyone help me out???

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