Brian Potter wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to use DBMS_OUTPUT or UTL_FILE or some other package to write
> to a file on an Oracle client machine. I have a procedure right now in the
> database (on a Sun server) that writes to a file in a directory on the Sun
> server. I would like to be able to write to a file on a Windows client
> machine when the procedure is invoked from a client app written in Oracle
> Forms 6.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
DBMS_OUTPUT and UTL_FILE are invoked from the RDBMS engine. Unless the
instance is running on the same machine as the client, I don't think you
can do this. Sounds like user-exit time to me.
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Ron Reidy
Oracle DBA
Reidy Consulting, L.L.C.
Received on Tue Nov 06 2001 - 22:30:09 CST
