Re: Email from Oracle

From: Nils <nils_at_bourbon.propertymall.com>
Date: 1997/05/09
Message-ID: <5kvd7v$g11@bourbon.propertymall.com>#1/1

Leslie Sandiland (lhen_at_chevron.com) wrote:
: Yes, you can use DBMS_PIPE to build the command you want executed (i.e.
: mail a message to a specific id, execute a unix shell script, etc) . This
: will be executed from the server that the database resides on. It involves
: a little bit of coding because you have to write a program which remains as
: a background process on the server which is constantly reading the pipe.

Are there any examples of such a programme anywhere?

I would have thought that this would be such a common request that it would be included with the basic Oracle package itself.

N.b. written by someone new to Oracle and thrown in at the deep end! Received on Fri May 09 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT