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  • About External Tables

    Oracle Database allows you read-only access to data in external tables. External tables are defined as tables that do not reside in the database, and can be in any format for which an access driver is provided. By providing the database with metadata describing an external table, the database is able to expose the data in the external table as if it were data residing in a regular database table. The external data can be queried directly and in parallel using SQL.

    You can, for example, select, join, or sort external table data. You can also create views and synonyms for external tables. However, no DML operations (UPDATEINSERT, or DELETE) are possible, and no indexes can be created, on external tables.

    External tables provide a framework to unload the result of an arbitrary SELECT statement into a platform-independent Oracle-proprietary format that can be used by Oracle Data Pump. External tables provide a valuable means for performing basic extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tasks that are common for data warehousing.

    The means of defining the metadata for external tables is through the CREATE TABLE...ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL statement. This external table definition can be thought of as a view that allows running any SQL query against external data without requiring that the external data first be loaded into the database. An access driver is the actual mechanism used to read the external data in the table. When you use external tables to unload data, the metadata is automatically created based on the data types in the SELECT statement.

    Oracle Database provides two access drivers for external tables. The default access driver is ORACLE_LOADER, which allows the reading of data from external files using the Oracle loader technology. The ORACLE_LOADER access driver provides data mapping capabilities which are a subset of the control file syntax of SQL*Loader utility. The second access driver, ORACLE_DATAPUMP, lets you unload data—that is, read data from the database and insert it into an external table, represented by one or more external files—and then reload it into an Oracle Database.

    Note:

    The ANALYZE statement is not supported for gathering statistics for external tables. Use the DBMS_STATS package instead.

    官方参考:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e25494/tables.htm#ADMIN12896

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  • 原文地址:https://www.cnblogs.com/gispf/p/3753281.html
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