Re: Database trigger to start C program???

In article <3lc5so$5o5_at_dcsun4.us.oracle.com> surman_at_oracle.com (Scott Urman) writes:
>From: surman_at_oracle.com (Scott Urman)
>Subject: Re: Database trigger to start C program???
>Date: 29 Mar 1995 17:37:28 GMT

>Yep. There is a package called DBMS_PIPE which you can use for this. You can't
>call a C program from a trigger directly, but the trigger can send a message
>along a pipe and the already running C program can receive this message. Check
>out Appendix A of the Application Developer's Guide.

Thanks for all the advice. It looks as if I'll be using the database alerts - since we really are interested in insert/update transactions, and using sna traffic to distribute this to other non-oracle databases.

Thanks for all the input!

Michelle

Michelle Morin                         Century Computer Consultants
Kansas City,MO                  skills:  SAP R/2, APPC/LU6.2, CICS