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Hi,
I want to change date type char value integer value?
I tried alter table tab_name modify (newcolumn
newdatetype). But The columns have 10 million values(char
type) so I want to load now numeric data. How it is possible?

Old Values New Value(I want to load numeric data but
the old value should be there in the column)
Y 1
N 0

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01439: column to be modified must be empty to change
datatype

Please help on this.
Thanks,
GM

Answer Posted / vas.chiky

take one copy of master table as table_copy.
add a new column say "numeric" to the existing master table.

truncate the master table.

In informatica designer,
1.table_copy as source and master table as target.
2.have one expression trasformation. add one field numeric
(integer datatype).
expression coundition: iff (old_value = 'Y',1,0)
provide the connections.

create new workflow and start. The data will be loaded to

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