external – Learning is not a spectator sport

External table preprocessor on Windows

There are plenty of blog posts about using the pre-processor facility in external tables to get OS level information available

I wrote a post a while back call “The Death of UTL_FILE”, and probably because of it’s click-bait title I

SQL loader is a very cool utility that has existed for a long time within Oracle to load flat files

Recently I was doing a simple external table load using a CSV file, but was getting an interesting error. My

We had an interesting issue on 12.1.0.1, where users were reporting very slow performance on queries to external tables. When