Re: I know the answer must be there somewhere...

Franz,

You need to look at DBMS_PIPE on O7 , but I think you would prefer the external procedure method within Oracle8.

Chris.

Franz GEIGER wrote:
>
> ...but still I did not find it in the HTML documentation. I'm rather new to
> Oracle and wonder if one can call EXEs within a trigger function. I'm
> running Oracle 7.3.3 on NT4.0 and would like to launch an app (written in
> MSVB5) if something special happens in the trigger. The app should then call
> the API of an other party's product and do some file copies in the file
> system.
>
> Any hint how I can find infos about?
>
> Thanks in advance and best regards
> Franz GEIGER
Received on Wed Feb 03 1999 - 15:41:09 CST