External Tables - Numeric Conversion
Hi all,
i have an external table definition which works fine with floats as long as they got a dot for the decimal place.
If they got a comma they get rejected. But those files are exported by Oracle as flat files. Can i adjust the export to do it right or can i do a number conversion like i can do with the SQL Loader?
(TO_NUMBER does not work :-( )
Thanks alot
/F#
Re: External Tables - Numeric Conversion
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Originally posted by SteinLaus
Hi all,
i have an external table definition which works fine with floats as long as they got a dot for the decimal place.
If they got a comma they get rejected. But those files are exported by Oracle as flat files. Can i adjust the export to do it right or can i do a number conversion like i can do with the SQL Loader?
(TO_NUMBER does not work :-( )
Thanks alot
/F#
if you can do it in sql*loader I think you can dql sqlldr contrl.ctl external_table=generate or something like that and it will work out the create table statement for you