Re: C/C++ program on tables

I can imagine quite a different approach.

What about pipes under Unix? This may work if a) you are accessing your data sequentially, not randomly, b) you are working locally under Unix, not via SQL*Net.

Just an idea.

Martin

Eric Gundesvan schrieb:
>
> Hello,
>
> Some of our users have written a number of C/C++ programs to analyze their
> data. This data was until
> recently in flat files, but now we keep them in tables. The problem is the
> users would like to be able to
> call their C/C++ programs on these tables. Some of these programs update
> existing columns, but others
> do not change the data in the tables; they simply calculate some scores.
>
> One solution we are thinking of is transfer the whole table into an ascii
> file, execute the programs on
> these files as before, and then load the results back into the table using
> Sql*Loader. However, we fear
> that this solution may be too slow.
>
> Is there a way to have these C/C++ programs execute against tables in
> Oracle? If the above solution is
> the only one, what would be the best way to transfer the data back and
> forth?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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Received on Fri Mar 12 1999 - 15:25:28 CST