Re: Writing to OS file

From PL/SQL version 2.3 there is a database package utl_file available which you can use to interact with the operating system both on client and server side. Developer/2000 tools offer the text_io package. It's documented in the same booklet which describes database triggers, stored procedures, packages etc. Also nicely documented in a the book "Oracle PL/SQL programming" by Steven Feuerstein. Have fun.

Cor van Winkoop
UCC
> We started with an early 7.0 version of Oracle on a Novell server. At the
> time, I was unable to
> find any PL/SQL support for writing directly to OS files. (It may have
> existed and I simply
> couldn't find it...) It seems to me that when we upgraded to a later Oracle
> version that I read
> something about some new capabilities allowing us to write to OS files
> directly. I recently went
> looking in the docs, but now I can't find anything about this topic.
>
> Can anybody help me out there? The bottom line: how do I write directly to
> OS files from Oracle.
> Where is it documented?
>
 

> Thanks a bunch...
>
> Paul Jacobs
> Alexander Associates
Received on Wed Jul 03 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST