Hello everyone,
I'd like to issue an email message to a user (who will
*NOT* have Oracle, and will not be at my site...) containing
all the fields of a row after an insert has been made
into a table. Depending on a combination of the fields'
states, a different user would be mailed. (i.e. given
SUBJECT is a column, then if new.subject = "Accounting"
mail Fred, if new.subject = "Receiving" mail Bertha...)
My question is, is it possible to trigger an OS command
via a database trigger? Is Oracle*Mail the tool I want
to be using? (I have no experience at all with it, so
I'm not sure what it does...).
I'm using 7.0.13.1 on a Sun, and I don't see any "operating
system command" based trigger stuff in the manuals. Can
anyone suggest the "do-ability" of this, and recommend a
path toward a solution?
My thanks in advance for any help.
-Carmen
One last thought:
There might be a "long way" around the problem by having a
polling cron job look in a certain directory say, every
five minutes, and dump all inserts into flat files there.
This job would mail people based on what directory it
was in. We'd still need a trigger (I guess) to write the
rows into individual files though...
Can a trigger ask the OS for a new file (as a C program
might) and then write the fields to it? It strikes me
that if it could do this, it could do the mailing, but
perhaps the thought might click with someone...
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Received on Mon Oct 04 1993 - 18:49:10 CET
