Tagged: external script

ORACLE 12C –  run external script

In earlier releases  running a shell script from the scheduler was difficult. In release 11g, to run a shell script one had to create an external job that launches the command interpreter, and pass through the script as a command line argument. In release 12c Oracle has improved the DBMS_SCHEDULER package functionality adding some interesting new features. One of this new features is the capability to run external scripts as part of our job action or even better the capability to write our own custom scripts and run them by invoking the shell interpreter (in case of unix environments) or...