I guess I just have to get into the habit of remembering to set my ORACLE_SID.<BR><BR>SQL*Loader: Why does SQL*Loader call it's file a control file, with the .ctl extension?? Going by the Oracle ...

However, when it comes to Oracle objects that are related to ... is a dummy column that contains the object's OID. The SQL*Loader control file syntax "oid(sysid)" takes this column and applies ...