This is very simple. You can write a Pro*C program that runs all the time,
and simply looks in a table for work to do. It keeps checking every so
often... The client application/front-end just needs to write a record to
tell the Pro*C program to start processing. I have written hundreds of
these.
--
Richard Armstrong
State Of The Art Consulting, Inc.
http://www.stateoart.com
Theo <ttol_at_vda.nl> wrote in message news:7hbehg$l60$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hello,
>
> I need some advice from you guys. Here's the situation:
>
> We have an Oracle 7.2 (7.3 in the future) database running on HP-UX at a
> customer site. Their wish is to print order forms from the database at
> predefined times. They want to do this completely from the back-end
> server, so the database needs to trigger the printing of some kind of
> report containing the order forms.
>
> Do you have any suggestions on how to implement this? We would like to
> keep most, preferably all of the code, on the back-end server.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Theo
>
>
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