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In article <s920cm457q5183_at_corp.supernews.com>,
"Marc" <mlatham23_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> I would like to be able to send e-mails and pages from my Oracle 8.1.5
> database. Is this only available from OEM or can it be done from a
PL*SQL
> package.
It can be done from PL/SQL in one of several ways:
1) write an external procedure or "call out" that calls an external
program or OS API to do the work.
2) write a program to poll the RDBMS looking in a queue table for
messages to send. You populate the table from PL/SQL and let the
monitor program do the work for you.
3) Use advanced queuing to fire off a message that would alert another
process to send the messages for you.
4) Use a DBMS pipe to send the message to an external program that will
do the work.
5) If you have Oracle's messaging (InterOffice) system installed, there
is a PL/SQL interface to it. Use that to directly send the mail.
There are probably as many more ways to do it as you care to think up. Each may vary a bit depending on the OS you are running the RDBMS on.
-cheers
DW
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Received on Fri Jan 28 2000 - 07:16:10 CST
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