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</html><description>By Franck Pachot . This post is the first one from a series of small examples on recent Oracle features. My goal is to present them to people outside of Oracle and relational databases usage, maybe some NoSQL players. And this is why the title is &#x201C;select from a flat-file&#x201D; rather than &#x201C;Inline External Tables&#x201D;. [&hellip;]</description></oembed>

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