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Pro Oracle Database 23ai Administration: Manage and Safeguard Your Organization’s Data
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Pro Oracle Database 23ai Administration: Manage and Safeguard Your Organization’s Data

by Michelle Malcher, Darl Kuhn
December 2024
Intermediate to advanced
612 pages
12h 12m
English
Apress
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M. Malcher, D. KuhnPro Oracle Database 23ai Administrationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1038-1_15

15. External Tables

Michelle Malcher1   and Darl Kuhn2
(1)
Huntley, IL, USA
(2)
Morrison, CO, USA
 

External tables are an easy way to use files to load data, run queries against to provide transformations, load only needed data, or use the files as reference data without even loading it to the database tables.

The Oracle external table feature enables you to perform a few operations.

  • Transparently select information from OS files that have been delimited or from fixed fields into the database.

  • Create platform-independent dump files that can be used to transfer data. ...

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