See ch. 10 of the PL/SQL programmers guide -- external procedures.
Summary: someone needs to write a DLL that executes the external program,
then Oracle can call the function from the DLL from a PL/SQL procedure.
I've never had the nerve to put that in a procedure, however, but the
context indexing is done that way so it must be possible :-).
"Allen R. Lucas" wrote:
> We have Oracle 8.0.5 in NT4.0.
>
> A developer asked if an Oracle trigger can be used to kick off an
> executable. Looking in my books, I would have to assume 'no' as I find
> noreference to this, but can anyone verify I am wrong, and where could I
> get addiional information if I am wrong?
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