Re: Calling perl from a stored procedure

Posted in 1996

john b — Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:23:45 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

bjv@tivoli.com wrote: > > I'm doing something similar in MS SQLServer using sp_exec and xp_cmdshell. > It also has a way to bind in a dll to extend the stored procedure builtins. > > Does Sybase, Oracle, and Informix provide such features? > > Thanks, > > Brian Vetter > bjv@tivoli.com Sybase provides Open Server. It allows you to make UNIX calls, but you must code for it (i.e. it's not a simple SQL extention, you must write some 3GL). JB