Is it possible for Oracle sqlldr to accept a TNS entry as an instance qualifier in Oracle 10 and 11?

Question

Is it possible to use a fully qualified TNS entry using sqlldr bundled with Oracle 10/11?

For example, in SQLPlus:

    sqlplus user/password@(description         


        

Answer 1

Have you tried the ezconnect format to connect to a remote db using sqlldr ?

e.g:

sqlldr user/password@//localhost:1521/orcl bad='bad_file.txt' control='control.ctl' data='data.txt' log='log.txt' direct='true'   

see: http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/EZCONNECT