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I'm new to the bulk utilities of oracle. &nbsp;I need to import records from a flat file. &nbsp;Somtimes this file can contain records that may already exist in the database. &nbsp;How do I deal with this ?
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I'm new to the bulk utilities of oracle.  I need to import records from a flat file.  Somtimes this file can contain records that may already exist in the database.  How do I deal with this ?

Can sql loader update existing records in a table ??

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