Question

I’m loading data to a Oracle 10g database through a control file and i get this error :
no terminator found after TERMINATED and ENCLOSED field

My control file has a specific definition of separators and enclosed :

FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," ENCLOSED by '"' TRAILING NULLCOLS

And in the data in error, there is a big field in which we can find this text :

after an "unauthorized" IOS upgrade 

I thought the TERMINATED BY and ENCLOSED were used to allow to have this kind of text in fields .. can i fix the problem in the control file or do i have to fix the problem in the text file ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Oracle reference:

ENCLOSED fields are read by skipping whitespace until a nonwhitespace
character is encountered. If that character is the delimiter, then
data is read up to the second delimiter. Any other character causes an
error.

If two delimiter characters are encountered next to each other, a
single occurrence of the delimiter character is used in the data
value. For example, 'DON''T' is stored as DON'T. However, if the field
consists of just two delimiter characters, its value is null.

So, use:

"data","after an ""unauthorized"" IOS upgrade ","data",...