RE: External Tables question

2003-11-05 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Title: External Tables question What about rownum? Waleed -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:25 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: External Tables question I am trying to use external

Re: External Tables question

2003-11-05 Thread Mladen Gogala
You can't load line number into the table except in the case where line number is actually contained in the table as a column. External tables are great for loading things into the proper realtional tables but cannot be used for much otherwise. You cannot index an external table. The best thing

Re: RE: External Tables question

2003-11-05 Thread ryan_oracle
cant you use rownum with a 'merge'? From: Khedr, Waleed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/11/05 Wed AM 11:34:33 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: External Tables question What about rownum? Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday

RE: RE: External Tables question

2003-11-05 Thread Khedr, Waleed
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: External Tables question What about rownum? Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am trying to use external tables, but can't

RE: External Tables question

2003-11-05 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: External Tables question Raj, here is an example of control file: load data into table TABLE_NAME truncate (piece recnum ... ) Alex. -Original Message- From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:25 AM To: Multiple

RE: External Tables question

2003-11-05 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: External Tables question Thanks everyone ... appreciate your input. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have