RE: Newline inserted?

Though I very much like Perl, sqlplus sometimes
is the correct tool to use, even from cron.

If you are on at least version 9 of Oracle, it
becomes an even better tool, as external tables,
bulk binds and the 'FORALL' statement can load
data extremely quickly and efficiently.

see: http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/10-2005/msg01318. html

Jared

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:22, Ward.P.Fontenot@wellsfargo.com wrote:
> This runs as a CRON job loading syslog data into Oracle so SQL*Plus is not a
> good answer. Thanks for help though.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reidy, Ron [mailto:Ron.Reidy@arraybiopharma.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 11:08 AM
> To: Fontenot, Ward P.; dbi-users@perl.org
> Subject: RE: Newline inserted?
>
> If your file has a '\n' in it, it cannot possibly be an issue with DBI or
> Oracle v anything.
>
> Are you processing individual SQL statements (does your file contain SQL
> insert statements)? If so, DBI is not your best bet to do this. I would
> rethink this and:
>
> a. Use SQL*Plus to load the file:
> sqlplus -L /nolog > connect uid/pwd@db_name
> @file
> commit;
> exit
> eof
>
> b. Consider getting a file of data (no SQL statemets) and use SQL*Loader to
> load the data.
>
> --
> Ron Reidy
> Lead DBA
> Array BioPharma, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ward.P.Fontenot@wellsfargo.com
> [mailto:Ward.P.Fontenot@wellsfargo.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:01 PM
> To: dbi-users@perl.org
> Subject: Newline inserted?
>
>
> I have the following sql insert statement in a file:
>
> INSERT INTO message(FULLDATE,HOSTNAME,FACILITY,PRIORITY,MESSAGE,SHA1)
> VALUES('2005-Oct-18 11:53:21','pkitest.wellsfargo.com','auth
> ','info','su(pam_unix)[3638]: session opened for user oracle by
> root(uid=0)','H4vgmf+OJsT99kCfQuIpALY7k9k=');
>
> When I attempt to load this file into Oracle 10g using the DBI I get the
> following error:
>
> DBD::Oracle::st execute failed: ORA-00911: invalid character (DBD ERROR:
> error possibly near <*> indicator at char 238 in 'INSERT INTO
> message(FULLDATE,HOSTNAME,FACILITY,PRIORITY,MESSAGE,SHA1)
> VALUES('2005-Oct-18
> 11:53:21','pkitest.wellsfargo.com','auth','info','su(pam_uni x)[3638]:
> session opened for user oracle by
> root(uid=0)','H4vgmf+OJsT99kCfQuIpALY7k9k=')<*>;')
>
> This is the code that loads this file:
>
> while () {
> chomp;
> $sql = qq{$_};
>
> $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql); # Should these be outside the loop?
> $sth->execute();
> }
>
> Od -cx FILENAME shows a "\n" character at the <*> point in the above
> file. VI -b does not. Is this a known issue with DBI and 10g or am I
> overlooking something?
>
>
> Paul Fontenot
> WFS - CAST Operations
> Email: ward.p.fontenot@wellsfargo.com
> Phone: (480) 437-7795
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