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Can you ftp a file from the database (do a directory listing and a get)?
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Antognini [mailto:Christian.Antognini_at_trivadis.com]=20
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 1:54 AM
To: Post, Ethan
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Goofy Late Night Idea?
Sorry... I post it again with the correct title...
>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=20
>data in files outside the database" and making it really simple. I=20
>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=20
>ftp servers for the database and handling all requests coming into port
>9000. Scott can ftp files into the database without requiring a OS=20
>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=20
>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()
# 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
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