Oracle Sql Loader handy commandsa
Data can be modified as it loads into the Oracle Database. One can also populate columns with static or derived values. However, this only applies for the conventional load path (and not for direct path loads SQL*Loader provides the following methods to load data: Conventional path loads – construct INSERT statements from the contents of the input datafile based on the predefined specification and execute the inserts. Direct path loads – creates data blocks in Oracle database block format from the datafile and directly writes the data block to the database. This way is much faster than the conventional path but subject to some restrictions. External table loads – create an external table for the data stored in the datafile and execute INSERT statements to insert the data from the datafile into the target table. The external table loads support parallel loading if datafile is big enough. To execute the SQL*Load tool, you need at least three files: The input data file stores ...