Re: executing shell scripts from PL/SQL

From: Bill Manry - Oracle Corp. <bmanry_at_ibmgate-aix.us.oracle.com>
Date: 1996/02/06
Message-ID: <4f6si8$2rs_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>#1/1

Gee Wong (gwong_at_microfone.net) wrote:
>I can not find any documentation on the host command. Which package
>is this procedure in?

Mr. Alari probably was referring to the 'host' function in SQL*Forms et al. Currently there is no direct means of invoking a user program or script from within the RDBMS. An indirect method using dbms_pipes exists...but it requires writing code to run at the other end of the pipe.

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Bill Manry  -  Mainframe and Integration Technologies  -  Oracle Corporation
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Received on Tue Feb 06 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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