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Reading file on client machine as an external table

The oracle is installed on a unix server. And I have oracle client on my local .

I have created a directory on local machine as follows..

CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY ext AS 'c:\external';

and i have defined the external table xyz and specified 'Default directory' as 'ext'

now when i query the external table it throws following error:

ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04040: file large_seller.dat in EXT not found
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 19

now when I change the EXT definition to a unix directory ('/staging/external')and place my file there it works fine..

My question is whether the file should be present only on the machine where oracle is installed?

Is there a way to read the file on local machine as external table? is the way I am specifying the local directory 'c:\external' correct?

Please help..

Thanks

Sean Stuber

you can't unless your database server is able to mount the client's directory (via NFS or Samba share)

even in that case, you're still using a "local" filesystem as far as the database is concerned, it doesn't know that the files are sitting on a different server.

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slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

You can use sql loader on the client to load the data into a table in the database.

gs79

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@slightwv.. Thank you for the response.. You mean to say you can load the data in the file on local machine into a table while you cannot read the file as external table as others have pointed?

Why is that so? I thought control file definition and external table definition is almost similar and if you can load the file into a table using sql loader just wondering why we can read the file as a table?

Thanks,

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