Re: Can PL/SQL do it?

From: Tim Holmes <Timothy_M_Holmes_at_sbphrd.com>
Date: 1996/09/17
Message-ID: <323E9FFE.4911_at_sbphrd.com>#1/1


Jerry Gomez wrote:
> Can a PL/SQL script on a Solaris
> machine run a DLL function (compiled for NT/WIN95) on a NT machine via SQL*NET or PL/SQL? any other protocol?
>

There are two PL/SQL packages which can help you here, DBMS_ALERT and DBMS_PIPE. You'd need an application running on the NT box which is permanently connected to your Oracle database. This could be written in a 3GL language such as Pro*C or perhaps using the OCI API.

Tim.

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Received on Tue Sep 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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