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Asked: 2026-05-26T17:50:59+00:00

Is there a way to prevent sqlloader from creating either the BAD file or

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Is there a way to prevent sqlloader from creating either the BAD file or the DISCARD file or both?

I read in a forum that setting the BAD parameter to NUL or NULL does that, but it doesn’t seem to work. Something like:

sqlldr control=CONTROL.ctl data=DATA.txt bad=NUL

This ends up creating a file called NUL.bad (or NULL.bad depending on how you spell it)

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  1. Editorial Team

    Discard file should be optional, based on a discard predicate / discard parameter, but the Bad file is not an optional file – if you get rows rejected when loading, it will generate the file.

    You could try send bad to the null depending (/dev/null in unix, NUL windows), did you set the right one for your OS?

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