Oracle external tables -

i'm struggling oracle external table, although researched oracle forums. still, no success.

let's suppose have simple table

describe products name                           null     type                                                                                                                                                                                           ------------------------------ -------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  id                             not null number                                                                                                                                                                                         name                                    varchar2(30)                                                                                                                                                                                   value                                   number(5,2)                                                                                                                                                                                    dep                                     varchar2(30)                                                                                                                                                                                   count                                   number(3)      

then, created oracle folder:

create or replace directory ext_prod_dir 'c:\'; 

i save content of table in .lst file

spool c:\products.lst select p.id || ';' || p.name || ';' || p.value  || ';' || p.dep || ';' || p.count products p; spool off;  p.id||';'||p.name||';'||p.value||';'||p.dep||';'||p.count                                                                                                                                 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  1;settlers of catan;29,95;toys;3                                                                                                                                                          2;dvd player;82,97;electronics;2                                                                                                                                                          3;red shirt;12,49;clothes;3                                                                                                                                                               4;black leather couch;399,99;furniture;5                                                                                                                                                  5;oak cofee table;223,99;furniture;5                                                                                                                                                      6;technodrome;27,99;toys;4                                                                                                                                                                7;oh cereal;3,95;foods;1                                                                                                                                                                  8;game console;299,95;toys;2                                                                                                                                                              9;video game;29,95;toys;3                                                                                                                                                                 10;lawn chair;34,99;furniture;11                                                                                                                                                          11;dog toy bone;34,99;toys;9                                                                                                                                                              12;heated blanket;27,95;toys;8                                                                                                                                                            13;flux capacitor;27,95;toys;7                                                                                                                                                            14;chocolate pie;3,14;foods;7 

then tried create external table:

create table products_ext    (id number,    name varchar2(30),   value number(5,2),   dep varchar2(30),   count number(3))    organization external    (type oracle_loader default directory ext_prod_dir    access parameters        (records delimited newline        fields terminated ';'       missing field values null        badfile ext_prod_dir:'products.bad_xt'       logfile ext_prod_dir:'products.log_xt'        (id char(6),       name char(30),       value char(8),       dep char(30),       count char(3)))        location ('products.lst')       ) reject limit unlimited 

so far good. when select data external table, got:

ora-29913: error in executing odciexttableopen callout ora-29400: data cartridge error kup-00554: error encontered while parsing access parameters kup-01005: syntax error: found "badfile": expecting 1 of: "column, (, reject" kup-01007: @ line 4 column 7

i tried huge amount of things, got variations on error. best thing accomplished got rid of error, table empty. if experience can point me in right direction, indebted.

thanks

badfile , logfile not part of fields clause. so, move them above fields terminated.

create table products_ext   (id number,   name varchar2(30),   value number(5,2),   dep varchar2(30),   count number(3))   organization external   (type oracle_loader default directory ext_prod_dir   access parameters       (records delimited newline       badfile ext_prod_dir:'products.bad_xt'       logfile ext_prod_dir:'products.log_xt'       fields terminated ';'       missing field values null       (id char(6),       name char(30),       value char(8),       dep char(30),       count char(3)))       location ('products.lst')       ) reject limit unlimited 

also, said when got rid of error, table empty. did check logfile? if error value column, check nls_numeric_characters parameter in view v$nls_parameters.

select * v$nls_parameters; 

check if decimal marker indeed comma. if not either update parameter or change in data file.