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- From: marcke@rossinc.com (Marc Kenig)
- Subject: Can you get DAL to execute shell scripts?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.205901.14129@rossinc.com>
- Organization: Ross Systems, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:59:01 GMT
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- Is it possible to execute shell (unix or VMS) scripts via DAL?
- In commercial systems, an SQL only API doesn't have all the expressive
- power you need for client/server systems. Many vendors who offer
- SQL-only APIs don't seem to realize this. For example, sometimes
- you want the server to do something mindless like spawn/fork a long
- DBMS operation, print a file, provoke a backup, read a server-based
- config file, search for a file/database, etc, etc. You could express
- the shell output as a SQL descriptor (Sybase Open Client/Server's
- shell RPC pops to mind) so long as the result of the shell command
- procedure is well defined...
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- marc kenig
- Ross Systems, Inc.
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