RE: Goofy Late Night Idea?

Hi Ross

>The only demos I see there are just kind of vanilla "use JDBC" for =3D
>loading stuff. I kept thinking Ethan was going for direct dbms data =3D
>injection via library through EXTPROC (in "wrong" direction, of =
course), =3D
>without requiring=3D20
>JDBC.
>
>To do this, I guess you could dump a client-based *.doc via ftp into a =
=3D
>dbms-server based <directory> and have a db-internal process polling =
for =3D
>results in <directory> and formatting same appropriately (via EXTPROC =
=3D
>and library def) for storage. You get ability to asynchronously upload =
=3D
>stuff and format it into db mediated by EXTPROC
>
>This would obviate the use of JDBC to inject data in the db.=3D20

I didn't give a look to the link... anyway I know for sure that it's = possible to use a standard FTP client to load data in the DB (in fact I = do such a demo every time I teach either a 9i New Feature course or a = XDB course...).

>(Of course, it IS very late)

It depends where you are ;-) I'm sitting at 6:57AM...

Cheers
Chris

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