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How To Load Timestamp Data Using Sql*Loader Into Date Columns (Doc ID 1148585.1)

Last updated on APRIL 03, 2020

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Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.1.0.2 to 11.2.0.0 [Release 10.1 to 11.2]
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Goal

There are times when you want to load data from a file into tables within the database, however, the files contain TIMESTAMP data but the table uses a DATE column.

This note will explain how you can load TIMESTAMP date into DATE columns using SQL*Loader.

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