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Danoja Dias commented on DERBY-6894:
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It is a good point that we didn't think of. If header has column names which 
are numbers, then no way to identify whether it is a name or a number. 

Bryan, What do you think? Is there a way to proceed ?

Thanks

> Enhance COLUMNINDEXES parsing for SYSCS_IMPORT_DATA_BULK to recognize columns 
> by name
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-6894
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6894
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: SQL
>            Reporter: Bryan Pendleton
>            Assignee: Danoja Dias
>            Priority: Minor
>
> To ease maintainability and legibility of client programs, it would be
> nice if callers of SYSCS_IMPORT_DATA_BULK (and possibly also
> SYSCS_IMPORT_DATA) could refer to columns in the COLUMNINDEXES
> argument by column *NAME*, as well as by index *NUMBER*.
> So, for example, a valid COLUMNINDEXES specification might be:
>     '1,3,LastName,FirstName,7'



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