Re: dbms_scheduler.create_file_watcher
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:47:01 +0100
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"Mladen Gogala" <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:pan.2012.10.18.02.59.01_at_gmail.com...
| On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:07:50 +0100, Adrian wrote:
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| > 11.2 Linux
| >
| > I'm looking at using this to identify when I've got new files to load.
| > At first glance it looks ideal, but on digging into the docs, it seems
| > that I need to set up a credential, which is where I hit problems.
| >
| > The plan is that the files will be put in a directory owned by a user
| > that we would be accessing using sudo rather than by logging in, so we
| > won't know what the password is. No password, no credential, no
| > credential, no file watcher appears to be the situation, or is there a
| > (legitimate) way around it that I've missed ?.
| >
| >
| > TIA
| >
| > Adrian
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| Don't use RDBMS for the things better solved by the operating system.
| Check out inotifywait and inotifywatch utilities. If you want to script
| it, there is a Perl module called Linux::Inotify. Inotify is a kernel
| module, available since the kernel 2.6.13, which means that RH 5.0 and
| compatible or newer versions have it. RH 5.0 has kernel 2.6.18. Very good
| article about Inotify is here:
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ubuntu-inotify/index.html
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|
Mladen,
I would guess that the OP has a system where he wants an Oracle job to pick up a data file and load it into the database as soon as it appears - that's what the file-watcher is basically for. If he uses inotify to watch for the file he still needs to do something to load that file into the database - which means Oracle still needs to be able to read the file (do you want inotify to copy it somewhere else where the file watcher can watch for it) unless he now has a looping program running externally to the database that has to be stopped and started as the database is stopped and started etc. etc. etc.
I don't have an answer to the original question since I haven't looked closely at file watcher - but I'm always reluctant to add an external component to a task that looks as if it could (or should) be handled and synchronised internally. That's why I learned to rethink some cron jobs as dbms_job and then dbms_scheduler became available - fewer dependencies.
-- Regards Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/all_postings Author: Oracle Core (Apress 2011) http://www.apress.com/9781430239543Received on Thu Oct 18 2012 - 09:47:01 CEST