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Yes, as I posted as a response to another question:
In Oracle8 you can call external 3GL code in a dynamically linked library (DLL or shared object). So you just write a library in C doing what you want, ie in your case a host function taking the command line as input argument. And that function will be callable from PL/SQL.
So what you have to do is more or less:
Hope this helps.
Ciao,
Finn
Raymond K.W. Lau wrote:
>
> Oracle 8 has a new feature, External Procedure, for server-side PL/SQL.
> Does it mean that PL/SQL could now use OS or third party dynamic
> link libraries even its are not written specific for Oracle Server ?
>
> - Raymond
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