Generate external table definitions from SQL*Loader

October 5, 2006

External tables, introduced in Oracle 9i, enable you to map a sequential text file to an Oracle table definition. Once the external table is defined, you can use the full power of the SQL SELECT statement—including parallel querying—to process it.

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