APEX

Guys,

Im trying to do the following

I have a csv file which is placed daily by a process in a certain directory. I cant get this placed onto UNIX or else I could schedule up a SQL load for it

I was looking at using external tables for it in order to reference the data directly.

The fall over seems to be when I try and CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY &variable name

The online APEX states that I dont have permissions to do this, is this something that I can request?

I also tried the create table statement with the EXTERNAL arguements minus the default directory but this wasnt valid

Any ideas?

Cheers