Re: Launch an executable using pl/sql

Chico Che wrote:

>Does anybody know how to do this?
>
>Launch notepad for example or a specific application.
>
>

 From PL/SQL? Surely you are kidding.

But I'll play along.

What version and edition?
Which version of the Windows operating system?

Write a very nice little C program to watch a pipe. Then have DBMS_PIPE send a message to the C program telling it to start Notepad. But again ... surely you are kidding.

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