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QUESTION POSED ON: 15 September 2004
I am trying to load data from a CSV file into my Oracle table using the SQL*Loader utility. I am new to SQL*Loader, and when I run the utility, all my records are identified as bad and the the program aborts. My requirement is that there are 5 columns which I need to default values in the control file and there are 15 columns from the CSV file. All 20 fields should be loaded as one row. Can somebody help?

I would suggest that you set up defaults when you create the definitions for your table. You can create a table or alter an existing column, and you can add the default value to a column. The following is the format for a column definition using a default value:

field1 varchar2(10) default 'NO VALUE' not null,

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