Re: Is it possible to include external programs into Oracle processes ??

From: Martin Haltmayer <Martin_Haltmayer_at_in.augsburg.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:15:53 +0200
Message-ID: <37E3F2F9.315A1FFA@in.augsburg.net>

Hallo Michael,

I suppose you mean by "compressed dump file" dump files that are generated with compressed=y in the export run.

This has nothing to do with file compression but it means that the extents are calculated to be one big extent when re-importing from that dump file.

Martin

Michael Keppler wrote:

> Hello everybody !
>
> After figuring out that a Oracle compressed dump file can be compressed
> to less than 20 percent of its size by external compression software I
> got the idea of including external software into Oracle processes.
> Is this possible in general ? And if yes, can I only run external
> programs by calling them like in a shell or can I include them for
> instance like a filter process in a byte stream produced by Oracle??
>
> We are running 8.0.5 on NT.
>
> Ciao and Thank You, Michael.
>
> --
> Michael.Keppler_at_bigfoot.com
Received on Sat Sep 18 1999 - 15:15:53 CDT