SQL loader not loading all columns in some environments - sqlplus

Question

I am facing a very weird problem, and the problem is related to SQL Loader. It loads all columns in some databases, while it skips the last column in other databases. And yes, the target table structure is identical among all databases.
Here is how csv file file looks like:
OPTIONS (ERRORS=50, DIRECT=TRUE, SKIP=1)
LOAD DATA
INFILE *
REPLACE
INTO TABLE STAGING.PRODUCTS
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';'
TRAILING NULLCOLS (
"PRODUCT_ID",
"PRODUCT_NAME",
"CLIENT_TECHNOLOGY")
BEGINDATA
1;Product1;N/A
2;Product2;N/A
....
100;Product100;N/A
and this is the log file, and this is from dev01. This is what I expect, aka all data loaded successfully:
SQL*Loader: Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Dec 8 15:29:21 2016
Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Control File: products.csv
Data File: products.csv
Bad File: products.bad
Discard File: none specified
(Allow all discards)
Number to load: ALL
Number to skip: 1
Errors allowed: 50
Continuation: none specified
Path used: Direct
Table STAGING.PRODUCTS, loaded from every logical record.
Insert option in effect for this table: REPLACE
TRAILING NULLCOLS option in effect
Column Name Position Len Term Encl Datatype
------------------------------ ---------- ----- ---- ---- ---------------------
Message 3053 not found; product=RDBMS; facility=UL
Message 3054 not found; product=RDBMS; facility=UL
"PRODUCT_ID" FIRST * ; CHARACTER
"PRODUCT_NAME" NEXT * ; CHARACTER
"CLIENT_TECHNOLOGY" NEXT * ; CHARACTER
Table STAGING.PRODUCTS:
100 Rows successfully loaded.
0 Rows not loaded due to data errors.
0 Rows not loaded because all WHEN clauses were failed.
0 Rows not loaded because all fields were null.
On the other hand, say dev12 has different log. The last column is totally skipped the town.
SQL*Loader: Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Dec 8 15:29:21 2016
Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Control File: products.csv
Data File: products.csv
Bad File: products.bad
Discard File: none specified
(Allow all discards)
Number to load: ALL
Number to skip: 1
Errors allowed: 50
Continuation: none specified
Path used: Direct
Table STAGING.PRODUCTS, loaded from every logical record.
Insert option in effect for this table: REPLACE
TRAILING NULLCOLS option in effect
Column Name Position Len Term Encl Datatype
------------------------------ ---------- ----- ---- ---- ---------------------
Message 3053 not found; product=RDBMS; facility=UL
Message 3054 not found; product=RDBMS; facility=UL
"PRODUCT_ID" FIRST * ; CHARACTER
"PRODUCT_NAME" NEXT * ; CHARACTER
Table STAGING.PRODUCTS:
100 Rows successfully loaded.
0 Rows not loaded due to data errors.
0 Rows not loaded because all WHEN clauses were failed.
0 Rows not loaded because all fields were null.
Any idea what can be the reason behind it? The target table is the same in all environments.
create table STAGING.PRODUCTS
(
product_id VARCHAR2(64) not null,
product_name VARCHAR2(64) not null,
client_technology VARCHAR2(64)
)
Thanks in advance :-)

Answer 1

You may have bigger issues at play. Notice these lines in both log files:
Message 3053 not found; product=RDBMS; facility=UL
Message 3054 not found; product=RDBMS; facility=UL
They should not be there. According to a little searching and this post, a file is missing and perhaps a client reinstall is in order? http://www.orafaq.com/forum/t/51572/2
Also you don't need double-quotes around the column names in the control file. I wonder if the double-quotes imply case-sensitive column names like when in SQL and perhaps the column name in dev12 doesn't match? Just a guess.