Calling external programs via PL/SQL

From: Nick <nicholas.mundy_at_pta.de>
Date: 23 Jan 2003 04:08:11 -0800
Message-ID: <9ee14796.0301230408.1d3f78aa_at_posting.google.com>


Hello,
is it possible to call an external program (e.g. the export utility EXP) from a PL/SQL procedure inside the database? The background to this is we want to schedule the export via dbms_job. We have tried using AT.exe (DB-server is Win2k) but this was unsatisfactory.
Thanks
Nick Received on Thu Jan 23 2003 - 13:08:11 CET

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