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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Automatically initiating an e-mail from Oracle
Doug Cowles wrote:
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> I'm actually exploring this myself at the moment. One way is to use external
>
> procedure in Oracle 8 - see meta-link or technet.oracle.com You can
> configure Oracle to call C code in the OS, which in turn can call the
> Operating System. You can therefore
> have a trigger page you, e-mail you etc., Another option is pipes, which
> people
> have suggested here before. I'm looking into that right now.
>
> - Dc.
>
> Marie Henebury wrote:
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> > Does anyone know if it is possible to automatically initiate an e-mail or
> > phone call from within the Oracle database or Oracle Forms 6.0?
> >
> > We have a need to be able to initiate an e-mail if a record has changed.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Please respond to me personally at mhenebury_at_fifthd.ca as well as to this
> > newsgroup.
> >
> > Thank You
> > Marie Henebury
> > Fifth Dimension Information Systems
If you haven't seen it already, a very good tool for using pipes to implement all sorts of goodies is:
http://govt.us.oracle.com/~tkyte/plex/indec.html --
"Some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue." Received on Mon Aug 09 1999 - 09:19:08 CDT
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