Hi,

I am trying to load a record(s) in a table which contains a field of
text datatype. The records in question contain occasional single
qoutes. This is an example of such records:

en|PRD-SHPE|11.0|NOTE: If a slab is a dummy', an asterisk is
displayed at the end of the|20011003.0|


I am then creating a control file and use sqlldr to load the data but
the load fails with the following messege:


Record 1: Rejected - Error on table SCRHLP_REC, column HLP_TXT.
ORA-12899: value too large for column
"RPSNX31"."SCRHLP_REC"."HLP_TXT" (actual: 75, maximum: 74)


Here is the control file I am using:


load data
infile "./scrhlp.dat" "str X'400A'"
badfile "./scrhlp.bad"
into table scrhlp_rec
fields terminated by "|"
(
HLP_LNG_CD ,
HLP_FLD_NM ,
HLP_LN_NO ,
HLP_TXT ,
HLP_REF_DT
)



If I remove the single qoute in the data, all works fine. How do I
specify that a single qoute is acceptable in this case? Please help.

Thanks.

Op 9-9-2010 18:11, dmardkar schreef:
Make the column some chars longer.

Shakespeare

On Sep 9, 12:11*pm, dmardkar <dmard... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
I have no problems loadng data with a single-quote inline; are your
text strings enclosed with ' or "? Using " my loads succeed.
Possibly you should change the enclosing quotation character for your
string data.


David Fitzjarrell