External Tables - Numeric Conversion

[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#

[davey23uk]

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

[Horace]

eh, what's that Davey.... sounds interesting, can you enlighten me

[davey23uk]

Originally posted by Horace
eh, what's that Davey.... sounds interesting, can you enlighten me

http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p...30572233529536

[Horace]

ooooooh! I like that! That's good that is........