Re: invoke external programs from PL/SQL

Frank Rose wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> can anybody tell me how to invoke external programs form the opeating system
> from PL/SQL-procedures in an oracle 7 Database.
> To be more exact: we are using an oracle 7.2 database on an windows NT server
> 3.51. I have already tried to find some built-in packages that do, but no chance.
> Do I need some more packages ??

U need one package DBMS_PIPE . use a c program to check out commands that pl/sql puts in the pipe , and then executes them .

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