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Populate SYSDATE-1 as default column value in SQL*Loader

CastellFeb 8 2017 — edited Feb 8 2017

DB / SQLLoader version: 11.2.0.4

Platform: Oracle Linux 6.5

I have a table and a flat file with data like below

SQL> create table test1 (someDate date, someName varchar2(35), someId number);

Table created.

$ cat /home/flatfile/scrap/mydata.dat

John,8

Krishna,6

Steve,4

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I want the values in the above flat file to be populated to TEST1 . someDate Column needs to be populated using SYSDATE-1 .

Once loaded , the table should look like below .

SQL> select sysdate from dual;

SYSDATE

-----------------

08-FEB-2017 16:34

SQL> select * from test1;

SOMEDATE          SOMENAME                                SOMEID

----------------- ----------------------------------- ----------

07-FEB-2017 16:35 John                                         8

07-FEB-2017 16:36 Krishna                                      6

07-FEB-2017 16:36 Steve                                        4

I tried the below control file. But, it didn't work. Any idea why ?

Although SOMENAME values (John, Krishna, Steve) are field1 in the flat file, it is the second field in the table. So, I need to let SQLLoader know that too.

$ cat loader.ctl

OPTIONS

(

ROWS=10000

)

load data

infile '/home/flatfile/scrap/mydata.dat'

into table test1

fields terminated by ","

(someDate "SYSDATE-1" ,

someName,

someId

)

No records are insert with the below execution. No messages printed either

$ sqlldr scott/tiger@10.7.12.83:1521/ORCL control=loader.ctl

SQL*Loader: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Feb 8 11:18:43 2017

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This post has been answered by Barbara Boehmer on Feb 8 2017
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