Hi neyman,
Thank god, i had a requirement to transfer data files from ftp server to oracle directory, and then am processing it...
Can you tell me method, how to write the external stored procedures and call from pl/sql.
thanks in advance.
Nirmal
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Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 4:30 PM
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Subject: Re: How to do a bitwise OR from SQL*Plus
I am using external stored procedures (C/C++), mostly to execute OS commands
from PL/SQL code.
Pretty straightforward (following docs), works fine. Should be accurate
mapping C-types to PL/SQL types.
Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
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> Hi
>
> Would external procedures be a way of doing this if bitand didn't exist ?
> Just that there is a lot of very cool C code out there.
>
> Have RTFM, but I'm a C compiler dunce and cc turned out to stand for
> completely confused :-)
>
> Has anyone managed to use external procedures ? Is it hard to do ?
What's
> the stability ? And performance ?
>
> Cheers
> GS
>
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>
> > why do you need to do a "bitwise or" within sqlplus?
>
> Good question... I have a really good engineer who is working with C and
> Oracle OCI. He's developing an install routine and assures me that he
needs
> bitwise operators from SQL because he can do some really powerful things
> with them. Then he said SQLServer and MySQL had them so the challenge was
> on. Turns out I was able to give him what he wanted with a little bit of
> help from something I found in a google search. There is an undocumented
> bitand function in oracle and it appears it must be called from another
> function. (Why?) You can see how this function is used in some of the data
> dictionary view creation scripts. Here's and example of bitand...
>
> SQL> select sum(bitand(12,11)) bitand from dual;
>
> BITAND
> ----------
> 8
>
> If you can get a bitand you can do a bitor...
> SQL> select sum(12+11-bitand(12,11)) bitor from dual;
>
> BITOR
> ----------
> 15
>
> The math...
> 1100 "12"
> 1011 "11"
> ==== bitand
> 1000 "8"
>
> 1100 "12"
> 1011 "11"
> ==== bitor
> 1111 "15"
>
>
> Not an alpha geek today,
> Steve Orr
>
>
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> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 7:06 AM
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>
> but, why do you need to do a "bitwise or" within sqlplus?
> just curious.
>
> Tom Mercadante
> Oracle Certified Professional
>
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 5:51 PM
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>
> OK, for the alpha geek award of the day...
>
> Who can tell me how to do a "bitwise or" from SQLPlus -- NOT PL/SQL? Isn't
> there an internal undocumented bitand function and how could you use that
to
> implement a bitor function from SQL?
>
> Steve Orr
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