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Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in article
<70kdlj$58g$1_at_hermes.is.co.za>...
> shardayyy wrote in message <70i7hq$abb_at_dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu>...
> >Would anyone out there know if a VB interface can access an Oracle
database
> >via the means of a script i.e C, or C++ or java
>
>
> Should be able to use the Win32 API call CREATEPROCESS to create a new
> process to run a script to access an Oracle database. STDOUT can also be
> piped to a file for processing by the calling program to see what the
> results of the script were. It's also fairly easy spawn a thread to watch
> the process and see when it terminates. Or even kill it when the process
is
> taking too long and is possibly hanging.
>
> VB you say? Then again maybe not. If you were using a proper development
> language like Delphi or C++ instead of that trash called VB....
>
>
> regards,
> Billy
>
>
>
Received on Wed Oct 21 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT