Re: looking up exchange rate from the web

From: <bonanos_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:04:41 GMT
Message-ID: <7caork$ug2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

> I'm a student doing some research on accounting info systems. Could anyone
> please tell me if there is a module in the Oracle product range (especially
> Financials-application package) where the system could look up the current
> exchange rate from the web(e.g. Bloomberg, Reuters) and update automatically
> when performing the month-end posting/report generating process?
>
> If there is such a thing, how and what's the name of this module?
>
> Thanks!!

There is a way in Oracle 8 to get web data into string in a PL/SQL procedure, then the financial package would just call that procedure.

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