Re: EXECUTE HOST COMMAND FROM ORACLE7 SERVER-SIDE PL/SQL ENGINE

we had a similar problem, what we did isn't the greatest, but we had utl_file write to a unix file, then a cron job checked for the file and ran if it existed

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Len Wickens
Senior Oracle/Unix Analyst
Object Oriented Programming Systems Corp
Paul Pham wrote in message <3496A68C.41E9_at_argprod.elan.af.mil>...


>hello everyone,


>

>Can we execute a host system command from Oracle7 server-side PL/SQL ??

>I know we can do it in SQLFORMS, SQLPLUS or in C via the standard

>library.




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