Convert TSV to Oracle
Upload a .csv or .tsv file and get back a Oracle SQL script you can load straight into your database. Types are preserved rather than flattened to text. Free, no registration, up to 10MB.
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CSV, Excel, SQLite, SQL, DBF (max 10 MB)
How your data is typed in Oracle
Generated from the converter's own Oracle type mapping — this is what it actually emits, not an example.
| Your data | Oracle type |
|---|---|
| Whole number | NUMBER(19) |
| Decimal (money) | NUMBER(10,2) |
| Floating point | BINARY_DOUBLE |
| True / false | NUMBER(1) |
| Date | DATE |
| Date and time | TIMESTAMP |
| Short text | VARCHAR2(255) |
| Long text | CLOB |
| Binary data | BLOB |
Working from a .tsv file
Tab-separated files come out of database shells, BI exports and anything that had to avoid commas inside its own values. They go through the same reader as CSV - the tab simply wins the separator sniff - so there is nothing to configure.
- →The extension is what routes an upload, and only .csv and .tsv reach this reader. A tab-separated file saved as .txt or .tab is not recognised, so rename it before uploading.
- →Because the separator is detected from the content and not the extension, a file named .csv that is really tab-separated is still read correctly.
- →Quoting rules still apply: a double quote opening a field is treated as a quote character, which is worth knowing for exports that never intended to quote anything.
Oracle-specific edges in the script
Oracle diverges further from ordinary SQL than any other target here, and the script is shaped around that. Three of its choices are worth reading before you load, because each is a place where the source can hold something Oracle has no room for.
- →Oracle's reserved list is full of words that legacy tables use as column names, so those get a trailing underscore: a column called DATE becomes DATE_, NUMBER becomes NUMBER_, LEVEL becomes LEVEL_.
- →Binary values are written as HEXTORAW('...'), which a plain SQL script can carry only up to 2000 hex characters - 1000 bytes. Anything larger needs PL/SQL chunking that no portable script can express, so a table of real attachments moves better through the SQLite or DuckDB target.
- →A string column of unknown length is declared VARCHAR2(4000) and anything longer becomes a CLOB. Under the default settings VARCHAR2 counts bytes rather than characters, so 4000 characters of Cyrillic or CJK will not fit in one.
- →Rows are batched a hundred to a statement, each block closed off with SELECT 1 FROM DUAL, so a 100,000-row table arrives as a thousand statements rather than a hundred thousand.
Reading TSV
- →Leading zeros are preserved. A column containing 01234 is kept as text, never turned into the number 1234.
- →An empty cell becomes NULL, not an empty string — the two mean different things once the data is in a database.
- →Dates are only treated as dates when the format is unambiguous. 03/04/2025 could be March 4th or April 3rd, so it stays text unless another value in the column settles it.
Writing Oracle
- →Uses INSERT ALL rather than multi-row VALUES, which Oracle rejects outright — the most common reason a generated Oracle script fails to load.
- →Dates are written with TO_DATE and an explicit format mask.
- →Booleans become NUMBER(1), because Oracle had no BOOLEAN column type before 23c.
- →Identifiers are capped at 30 characters so the script loads on Oracle 12.1 and earlier too.
- →Note that Oracle itself treats an empty string as NULL — that is Oracle behaviour, not a conversion error.
What you get
A ZIP containing dump.sql, plus a README with the exact command to load it. If anything about your data needed a judgement call, a _warnings.txt explains it.
Load this dump into Oracle:
sqlplus USER/PASSWORD@//HOST:1521/SERVICE @dump.sql
Notes specific to Oracle:
- Oracle treats an empty string as NULL. A column that held ''
in the source will read back as NULL here. This is Oracle
behaviour, not a conversion error, and it cannot be avoided.
- Booleans are NUMBER(1), 1 or 0: Oracle had no BOOLEAN column
type before 23c.
- Identifiers are capped at 30 characters for compatibility
with 12.1 and earlier.
- Table and column names are quoted, so Oracle keeps their exact
case. Unquoted Oracle identifiers fold to upper case, which
means you must quote them in your queries too:
SELECT * FROM "MyTable"; not SELECT * FROM MyTable;Questions
- Is converting TSV to Oracle free?
- Yes. Files up to 10MB convert free with no account. There is a limit of five conversions per day per IP address.
- Will my TSV data keep its types in Oracle?
- Yes — that is the point. Whole numbers, decimals, dates and booleans are mapped to real Oracle types rather than everything becoming text. The mapping table above shows exactly what you get.
- Do you store my file?
- No. The file is written to a temporary directory, converted, and the directory is deleted as soon as your download has been sent.