Re: PL/SQL host commands

with oracle 8, you can also use "external procedures".

1. You compile a C program into a shared library (the program could execute a system call).
2. you then configure SQL*Net to utilize external procedures
3. then create a data dictionary object to represent the OS library
4. then create a wrapper PL/SQL procedure for the C routine.

See the oracle documentation or the Oracle 8 PL/SQL Programming book from Oracle Press.

James McKay wrote in message
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>Is it possible to call a unix shell script from a PL/SQL package?
Received on Fri Dec 18 1998 - 14:03:04 CST