Re: calling external programs

From: Kevin Riibe <kevin.riibe_at_compaq.com>
Date: 1997/09/25
Message-ID: <01bcc9e0$6bbeb990$5f16a883@kriibe-nt>#1/1

True, but cannot initiate the call from a stored procedure to execute the program. It cannot be done. If you have a external program executing and connected to the database, then another client connection could use DBMS_PIPE to communicate.

kumarg <kumarg_at_mindspring.com> wrote in article <01bcc851$902ff720$11f47fc0_at_gaatlakumarg.atlantaga.ncr.com>...
> This is available from Oracle 7.0 onwards, we need not wait till Oracle
8.
> Try using DBMS_PIPE package to invoke external programs.
>
>
Received on Thu Sep 25 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT