Pump up the Volume!

The APEX Data Loader Inside Out

Roel Hartman

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About Roel

Director of APEX Evangelists NL 20+ years of Oracle Experience RoelH in the APEX Forum Presenter at KSCOPE, OOW, Collaborate, DOAG, UKOUG, ... Oracle ACE Director Blog @ http://roelhartman.blogspot.com Twitter : @RoelH
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A Small Ad...

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How To Get Data Into The Database?

DBA ETL Tools Data Pump SQL Loader External Tables UTL_FILE XLS Upload File Upload Data Load Wizard Websheets
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Developer

End User

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Data Load Wizard - Wizard

Plain Insert Tweak User Experience Add Lookups Add Transformations Add Concurrency Under the Covers

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Plain Insert
DEMONSTRATION

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Tweak user experience

DEMONSTRATION

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Add lookups
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So Insert New Value only works with auto generated keys! (it does insert a record with ST = NULL...) So you have to manage that using triggers...

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Add transformations
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Only columns that are uploaded can be transformed...

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Add concurrency
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Does NOT work when you update the UK (First/Last Name) -> will do an insert (or when you delete the record -> will do an insert)
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Under the covers

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Collections Used

After Data Load Source

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CLOB_CONTENT PARSE_COL_HEAD SPREADSHEET_CONTENT

After Data / Table Mapping

LOAD_COL_HEAD LOAD_CONTENT NOT_LOAD_CONTENT

After Data Validation

FIN_LOAD_CONTENT
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One-to-many Mapping

Sales sheet
Customers Products Orders Order Items

Use view + Instead of Triggers

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Conclusions

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Conclusions

Data Load Wizard - Wizard is easy to use for an APEX Developer Data Load Wizard is easy to use for an End User Data Load Wizard is for 1:1 mappings to Tables Table Lookups + Manage Concurrency are nice features Easy Transformation Rules are ... easy Complex Transformation Rules are ... complex & limited
Better use View with Instead Of Triggers Supports one-to-many mapping
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