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March 8, 2019 Uncategorized

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

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February 15, 2019 Uncategorized

The death of UTL_FILE – part 2

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

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November 1, 2017 Uncategorized

Parsing freeform data in flat files

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

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November 10, 2015 Uncategorized

A new line on NEWLINE

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

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January 2, 2015 Uncategorized

Slow external table access

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

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