Run os commands from a stored procedure?

From: Lee Miller <lpm_at_newsguy.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:37:14 -0400
Message-ID: <9c1p6c0ov0_at_enews3.newsguy.com>


Is it possible with Oracle 7.3.x to run a OS command from inside a stored procedure? Basically I want to homebrew an answer to SQL Server's xp_sendmail using a stored procedure that will create the message as a text file and then call perl to execute the SMTP transfer from the RDBMS's host OS (Solaris 8 in this case). Can this be done using DBMS_SQL or any other packages? Received on Mon Apr 23 2001 - 19:37:14 CEST

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