RE: External table novelties

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:07:43 -0700
Message-ID: <OF344CDE8E.89776393-ON88256EFC.005E0FB1-88256EFC.005E1965@radisys.com>

> Jared,
>
> I have not thoroughly tested this, but the basic premise does work and =
> is
> valid. Create an external table that's defined on a named pipe, rather
> than a file. I was half expecting an ORA-600 ora ORA-7445, but
Oracle=20
> (9.2.0.5 on Solaris 8) seems ok with it. I just did basic testing.
>
> select * from my_pipe;
> will immediately return any data in the pipe, or block waiting on data.
> If you send multiple lines of output to the pipe, all the lines will=20
> be outputted in Oracle.

Very cool Mark, hadn't thought of that one.

Jared

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