Hi all, for documentation purpose: I suggested Manuel to use the COMPACT format for data files rather then the COMPRESSED format. The COMPACT format is a proprietary MaxDB Loader format that eliminates problems with CSV data in this release (7.3) and the need to extra specify LONG file names in EXTRACT and LOAD commands. The DATALOAD command DATALOAD TABLE "IMMO_EXPOSE" "DATUM_VERAEND_E" 1 CHAR DEFAULT NULL "DATUM_VERAEND_IE" 2 CHAR DEFAULT NULL "EDIID" 3 CHAR "EXPOSE" 4 CHAR DEFAULT NULL "EXPOSE_INTERNET" 5 CHAR DEFAULT NULL "HAT_EXPOSE" 6 CHAR DEFAULT NULL INFILE 'IMMO_EXPOSE.data' COMPRESSED ASCII DECIMAL '/ /./' DATE INTERNAL TIME INTERNAL TIMESTAMP INTERNAL NULL '? ' BOOLEAN 'TRUE/FALSE' LONGFILE "EXPOSE" 'IMMO_EXPOSE.EXPOSE' BINARY
could therefor be rewritten as: DATALOAD TABLE "IMMO_EXPOSE" "DATUM_VERAEND_E" 1 CHAR DEFAULT NULL "DATUM_VERAEND_IE" 2 CHAR DEFAULT NULL "EDIID" 3 CHAR "EXPOSE" 4 CHAR DEFAULT NULL "EXPOSE_INTERNET" 5 CHAR DEFAULT NULL "HAT_EXPOSE" 6 CHAR DEFAULT NULL INFILE 'IMMO_EXPOSE.data' COMPACT ASCII DECIMAL '/ /./' DATE INTERNAL TIME INTERNAL TIMESTAMP INTERNAL NULL '? ' BOOLEAN 'TRUE/FALSE' The corresponding DATAEXTRACT FOR DATALOAD command would look like this: DATAEXTRACT FOR DATALOAD TABLE "IMMO_EXPOSE" OUTFILE '<commands file name>' APPEND OUTFILE '<data file name' COMPACT Regards, Steffen -- Steffen Schildberg MaxDB Team SAP Labs Berlin -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]