Re: How to invoke export/import or sql loader?

From: Mark D Powell <Mark.Powell_at_eds.com>
Date: 15 Mar 2004 07:21:10 -0800
Message-ID: <2687bb95.0403150721.1731e7a4@posting.google.com>

alederer <alederer_at_gmx.at> wrote in message news:<40559a53_at_e-post.inode.at>...
> Hallo!
>
> Is there a possibility to invoke and control the export/import or the
> sql*loader utility via api calls from a c++ application.
>
> E.g. in db2 there is the db2api sqluload to control a load of a table.
>
> Is there a dbms package which can help?
>
> Thanks
> Andreas

Andreas, you can use the standard C call to issue commands to the OS to invoke sqlldr or a shell script that runs sqlldr. This is very easy on a UNIX environment. You should be able to do the same on a Windows platform.

HTH -- Mark D Powell -- Received on Mon Mar 15 2004 - 09:21:10 CST