Re: External SQL functions exported by DLLs

Peter Sullvan said,on 3/11/2005 7:19 PM:
> We have a few rather advanced calculation routines
> developed in C++. Currently we are using a Sybase ASA
> database for our app. and these routines are accessible
> by so called external functions exported by a DLL
> (dynamic link library) that we wrote in C++. Sybase
> supports this quite nicely.
>
> The client app can call such routines by:
>
> "select get_roof_angle() as angle from dummy;"
> or
> ":angle = call get_roof_angle();"
>
> Now we are checking if other databases can provide us
> with similar abilities. So I just wonder if Oracle
> supports the ability to call a routine exported by a
> DLL? If yes, does anyone know the SQL syntax to declare
> it in Oracle.
>
> Best regards
> Peter Sullvan
>
>
>
>

you can call external functions as
plsql functions.

Regards,

-- 
Shanmu.