
Loading CSV Into Oracle With SQL Loader Control Files
Load a CSV into Oracle with SQL*Loader: a control file for quotes and dates, the bad and log files, exit codes, direct path and external tables.
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Load a CSV into Oracle with SQL*Loader: a control file for quotes and dates, the bad and log files, exit codes, direct path and external tables.

Export an Oracle query to a quoted CSV with SQLcl: set the CSV format, spool to a file, fix date and number formats, and run it from a shell script.

How Oracle's JSON_TABLE projects a JSON document into relational rows and columns, with row paths, nested paths, ordinality, ON ERROR and ON EMPTY clauses.

How SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake and BigQuery store, read, unpack, build and index JSON, side by side, with the null, type and size traps in each.
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