RE: Goofy Late Night Idea?

Let me get back to the idea that what I am striving for is simplicity. External tables are a great example of taking a need "interacting with data in files outside the database" and making it really simple. I would love to see something like this...

create ftp 'myftp' port 9000 default '/tmp/inbound'; grant all on myftp to scott;
create table foo (x blob);
alter table foo use myftp;

presto! all of a sudden you get a couple java procs that are acting as ftp servers for the database and handling all requests coming into port 9000. Scott can ftp files into the database without requiring a OS login.

Of course I will want some DD tables/views such as V$FTP_STATS etc...of course if Larry's vision of the database becoming the OS comes true then perhaps things really will be this simple. I do see the beauty of that idea.

My bet is the demos are as simple as that but I might be wrong!

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Christian Antognini Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:58 PM To: RMohan_at_arbinet.com
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Subject: RE: Goofy Late Night Idea?

Hi Ross

>The only demos I see there are just kind of vanilla "use JDBC" for =
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>loading stuff. I kept thinking Ethan was going for direct dbms data =
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>injection via library through EXTPROC (in "wrong" direction, of =3D
course), =3D3D
>without requiring=3D3D20
>JDBC.
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>To do this, I guess you could dump a client-based *.doc via ftp into a
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>dbms-server based <directory> and have a db-internal process polling =
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>results in <directory> and formatting same appropriately (via EXTPROC =
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>and library def) for storage. You get ability to asynchronously upload
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>stuff and format it into db mediated by EXTPROC
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>This would obviate the use of JDBC to inject data in the db.=3D3D20

I didn't give a look to the link... anyway I know for sure that it's =3D possible to use a standard FTP client to load data in the DB (in fact I =3D
do such a demo every time I teach either a 9i New Feature course or a = =3D
XDB course...).

>(Of course, it IS very late)

It depends where you are ;-) I'm sitting at 6:57AM...

Cheers
Chris

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