RE: How To Run Unix Applications From The Database

From: Dunbar, Norman (Capgemini) <"Dunbar,>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:35:59 +0100
Message-ID: <919FC80F27E0C6428106496EDF92A7520F4D8483_at_EXCCLUS05.PRODDS.NTNL>



Hi Scott,

>> I need to be able to call a unix program or script from
>> PL/SQL, particularly from a trigger.

If you need to run it from a trigger, I imagine that you will need to look into EXTPROCs.

We do it for some spatial geometry checking that calls out to Radius (or whatever it is called this week) Software code.

It does have security implications though.

Cheers,
Norman.

Norman Dunbar
Contract Senior Oracle DBA
Capgemini Database Team (EA)
Internal : 7 28 2051
External : 0113 231 2051

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