Answers to Chapter 17
 | Reviewing It |
| 1: | What is the purpose of SQL*Loader? |
| A1: | SQL*loader can load data from specifically formatted files (files with data fields in fixed locations), files where the fields have some kind of field separator such as a ':', data that is in its own definition file, or it can even load data via the Unix pipe command |
| 2: | Why would someone use External Tables instead of SQL*Loader? |
| A2: | External tables gives the user the ability to run full SQL against the data, performing data conversions with DECODE, concatenations, and so on |
| 3: | Why would you want SQL*Loader to skip records? |
| A3: | Perhaps there is some header information in the ... |
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