Re: Oracle 8i and async notifications

Matt Parker wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering how best to approach asynchronous client notifications of data
> changes. For example, John's GUI displays a list of items. Mary adds an item
> to the list from her GUI. I would like John's GUI to automagically display
> the new item in the list. Is there a special trigger function to do this
> (obviously not the display part), or is there a lot of work involved in
> setting this up?
>
> tia

Check out the supplied packages guide for DBMS_ALERT and DBMS_PIPE

HTH

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