Re: ??? Executing a Unix command from PL/SQL

On 13 May 1998 15:58:19 +0200, Bjorn Borud <borud_at_guardian.no> wrote:

>[tkyte_at_us.oracle.com (Thomas Kyte)]
>|
>| See chapter 10 in the PL/SQL manual. Its about External Procedures
>| which let you call C from PL/SQL directly. Basically, you'll create
>| a .dll on NT or .so on Unix and then you'll be able to call the
>| functions/procedures in that after you map them to pl/sql.
>
>this is something that I've been scanning the docs of Oracle for, but
>never been able to find. I looked in the PL/SQL 2.3 manual but I
>didn't find anything there.
>
>in what versions of Oracle is this possible (i generally use 7.3 under
>HP-UX and Solaris)?
>
>are there any resources available on the web describing this
>mechanism?
>
>-Bjørn

It requires Oracle 8.

HTH
Peter

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