Re: External Program Execution

2007-06-04 Thread Nasir Iqbal
> Not built-in. Try here: http://www.xcdsql.org/MySQL/UDF/index.html > > Cheers > Baron > Thanks Baron. This exactly what I want. Thank you. Actually I want to use this sys_exec in triggers and event scheduler (as Introduced in new version of MySQL server). by doing so I can completely repla

Re: External Program Execution

2007-06-04 Thread Peter Brawley
Nasir, I am wondering if there is any way to execute external application from MySQL procedures/trigger/event scheduler. Like as we do in php with !,exec and system. No, SQL isn't meant to be a complete computing language, and in any event such capability would be a huge security headache.

Re: External Program Execution

2007-06-04 Thread Baron Schwartz
Hi, Nasir Iqbal wrote: Hi, I am wondering if there is any way to execute external application from MySQL procedures/trigger/event scheduler. Like as we do in php with !, exec and system. I want to know that if there is any way(simple SQL command, pacth) to do it. so I can execute external appl

External Program Execution

2007-06-03 Thread Nasir Iqbal
Hi, I am wondering if there is any way to execute external application from MySQL procedures/trigger/event scheduler. Like as we do in php with !, exec and system. I want to know that if there is any way(simple SQL command, pacth) to do it. so I can execute external application like ???('php -d