To use external tables successfully, find out about external table concepts, and see examples of what options are available to you to use external tables with Oracle Database.

• External Tables Concepts
  The external tables feature is a complement to existing SQL*Loader functionality. It enables you to access data in external sources as if it were in a table in the database.
• The ORACLE_LOADER Access Driver
  Learn how to control the way external tables are accessed by using the ORACLE_LOADER access driver parameters to modify the default behavior of the access driver.
• The ORACLE_DATAPUMP Access Driver
  The ORACLE_DATAPUMP access driver provides a set of access parameters that are unique to external tables of the type ORACLE_DATAPUMP.
• ORACLE_BIGDATA Access Driver
  With the ORACLE_BIGDATA access driver, you can access data stored externally (in object stores or file systems) as if that data was stored in tables in an Oracle Database.
• External Tables Examples for Oracle Database
  Learn from these examples how to use the ORACLE_LOADER, ORACLE_DATAPUMP,ORACLE_HDFS, ORACLE_HIVE access drivers, and to use external tables with vector data.