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I'm trying to import an excel file into a table. The excel file has dates in the following format: 20/08/2008 12:00:00 AM and I am telling SQLDEV the following: DD/MM/YYYY H24:MI:SS AM

To import the file, I am right clicking on the table in SQL Developer, hitting import data and then selecting the file, I map the columns and set the format to above and get the above error. Here's the table:

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--  DDL for Table DRUG_INFO_NOS
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  CREATE TABLE "DANIEL"."DRUG_INFO_NOS" 
   (    "DIN" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE), 
    "TRADE_NAME" VARCHAR2(50 BYTE), 
    "FORM" VARCHAR2(40 BYTE), 
    "GENERIC_NAME" VARCHAR2(60 BYTE), 
    "MANUFACTURER" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), 
    "CR_DATE" DATE, 
    "NOC_DATE" DATE, 
    "FIRST_CLAIM_DATE" DATE, 
    "SEQUENTIAL_ID" NUMBER
   ) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING
  STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
  PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT)
  TABLESPACE "DATAL03" ;
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--  Constraints for Table DRUG_INFO_NOS
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  ALTER TABLE "DANIEL"."DRUG_INFO_NOS" MODIFY ("DIN" NOT NULL ENABLE);

  ALTER TABLE "DANIEL"."DRUG_INFO_NOS" MODIFY ("TRADE_NAME" NOT NULL ENABLE);

  ALTER TABLE "DANIEL"."DRUG_INFO_NOS" MODIFY ("GENERIC_NAME" NOT NULL ENABLE);

  ALTER TABLE "DANIEL"."DRUG_INFO_NOS" MODIFY ("MANUFACTURER" NOT NULL ENABLE);

  ALTER TABLE "DANIEL"."DRUG_INFO_NOS" MODIFY ("SEQUENTIAL_ID" NOT NULL ENABLE);

but I am getting the above error. What's up?

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  • You have not provided enough information. Post the error message, structure and data-types of existing table in db. and what steps you are using to import excel file. How many spaces are in that excel date you provided? Looks like there are 2 spaces between date and time. Not sure if this could be an issue... – Angelina Jun 9 '15 at 17:28
  • I fixed the 2 spaces problem, but I'm still getting the same error. I will update the question shortly. – Daniel Paczuski Bak Jun 9 '15 at 17:32
  • You should use the "insert script" option in order to actually see what SQL Dev is doing, and fix it on the way. I did a test and I saw that date formats from excel files doesn't import hour data in SQL Dev. May be a bug. Your best option is to save the excel file into a CSV, and import it from there. – vegatripy Jun 10 '15 at 15:14
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    What "above error?" There is no error message in your question. – Air Jan 27 '16 at 22:49
  • I probably edited it and accidentally removed that. Would've been a better question to ask 7 months ago :P – Daniel Paczuski Bak Jan 28 '16 at 17:32
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This link shows how to deal with importing excel file and invalid date format: how-to-import-excel-to-oracle. Hope this helps.

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  • Would be good to have a little explanation here, instead of just the Link. It will be helpfull. – Racer SQL Jun 9 '15 at 17:43
  • I already looked at that page before posting here, it didn't help. – Daniel Paczuski Bak Jun 9 '15 at 17:48

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