Re: PL/SQL output to printer?

From: Ed Prochak <edprochak_at_interfacefamily.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 11:44:33 -0500
Message-ID: <369392F1.2DF54EE5@interfacefamily.com>

Sorry Ken. You're out of luck. PL/QL executes within the database, so it knows nothing about external devices like printers. Maybe you can call your procedure from Pro*C and print it that way.

Ken wrote:

> Is there a way to send the output of a select statement in PL/SQL
> to a printer? So far the only thing I can come up with is writing
> the output to a file and then using another program to print the files.
>
> I'm not trying to get any fancy reports, just plain ASCII text character
> output
> to the printer from within the PL/SQL program, not with SQL*PLUS.
>
> ken
Received on Wed Jan 06 1999 - 10:44:33 CST