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>Let me get back to the idea that what I am striving for is simplicity.
>External tables are a great example of taking a need "interacting with
>data in files outside the database" and making it really simple. I
>would love to see something like this...
>
>create ftp 'myftp' port 9000 default '/tmp/inbound';
>grant all on myftp to scott;
>create table foo (x blob);
>alter table foo use myftp;
>
>presto! all of a sudden you get a couple java procs that are acting as
>ftp servers for the database and handling all requests coming into port
>9000. Scott can ftp files into the database without requiring a OS
>login.
>
>Of course I will want some DD tables/views such as V$FTP_STATS etc...of
>course if Larry's vision of the database becoming the OS comes true =
then
>perhaps things really will be this simple. I do see the beauty of that
>idea.
>
>My bet is the demos are as simple as that but I might be wrong!
Below a demo of what it's possible now (notice that I didn't perform any = installation or configuration before executing the following = statements). On my opinion non difficult at all...
linux:oracle:A1010 /u00/app/oracle> sqlplus system/manager
[snip version information, in my case 10.1.0.3.0]
SQL> create or replace view myftp as
2 select * from resource_view where under_path(res,'/public')>0;
View created.
SQL> select * from myftp;
no rows selected
SQL> exit
linux:oracle:A1010 /u00/app/oracle> ftp linux 2100
Connected to linux.cha.trivadis.com.
220 linux FTP Server (Oracle XML DB/Oracle Database 10g Enterprise =
Edition Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production) ready.
Name (linux:oracle): system
331 pass required for SYSTEM
Password:
230 SYSTEM logged in
Remote system type is Unix.
ftp> cd public
250 CWD Command successful
ftp> put /etc/oratab oratab
local: /etc/oratab remote: oratab
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,172,101,143,189)
150 ASCII Data Connection
100% |*************************************| 1495 5.48 MB/s =--:-- ETA
linux:oracle:A1010 /u00/app/oracle> sqlplus system/manager
[snip version information, in my case 10.1.0.3.0]
SQL> select any_path from myftp;
ANY_PATH
-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
SQL> set long 100000 SQL> set pagesize 1000 SQL> select xdburitype(any_path).getclob() from myftp;
XDBURITYPE(ANY_PATH).GETCLOB()
-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
# # This file is used by ORACLE utilities. It is created by root.sh # and updated by the Database Configuration Assistant when creating # a database. # A colon, ':', is used as the field terminator. A new line terminates # the entry. Lines beginning with a pound sign, '#', are comments. # # Entries are of the form: # $ORACLE_SID:$ORACLE_HOME:<N|Y>: # # The first and second fields are the system identifier and home # directory of the database respectively. The third filed indicates # to the dbstart utility that the database should , "Y", or should not, # "N", be brought up at system boot time. # # Multiple entries with the same $ORACLE_SID are not allowed. # # # *:/u00/app/oracle/product/10.1.0:N # *:/u00/app/oracle/product/9.2.0:N # *:/u00/app/oracle/product/9.0.1:N # *:/u00/app/oracle/product/8.1.7:N # *:/u00/app/oracle/product/gc:N # *:/u00/app/oracle/product/agent:N A1010:/u00/app/oracle/product/10.1.0:N
L920:/u00/app/oracle/product/9.2.0:N A901:/u00/app/oracle/product/9.0.1:N A817:/u00/app/oracle/product/8.1.7:N +ASM:/u00/app/oracle/product/10.1.0:N
SQL> exit
-- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Fri Jan 28 2005 - 02:55:13 CST
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