what is External tables? explain with examples
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Answer Posted / karkuvelrajan muthusamy
External tables can be used to fetch data from a physical
data file present in the OS path of the database server.. It
is similar to SQL*Loader where oracle reads data from a
datafile and loads into oracle tables.. An external table is
very similar.. Whenever we create an eternal table, oracle
doesnot load data from file instead a table that referes to
the file only is created.. A sample syntax could be as
following:
create table ext_tbl
(e_name varchar2(50),
e_sal number)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL(
TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
-- Default->ORACLE_LOADER, Oracle_datapump can also be used
DEFAULT DIRECTORY ext_dir
-- An oracle directory has to be created with
-- name ext_dir
ACCESS PARAMETERS
(
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
(e_name, e_sal)
)
LOCATION('file1.txt')
)
The file1.txt should be in the following format:
Kumar,20000
Raj,10000
Patel,34000
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Karkuvelrajan M
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