RE: Goofy Late Night Idea?
- From: "Bruce McCartney" <bruce.mccartney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Ethan.Post@xxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:55:29 -0700
Ethan,
I saw a demo of exactly this a while back using Oracle, XMLDB; which
supports access by http, ftp and webdav. I haven't loaded myself; but there
is mention of a downloadable demo at
http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/xml/xmldb/index.html
Cheers,
Bruce McCartney
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> Subject: Goofy Late Night Idea?
>
> OK, so for whatever reason this thought just popped into my
> head and I think it would be a pretty cool feature for a
> database to have.
>
> # From a remote server you type...
>
> ftp server_name port
>
> # Then use normal ftp commands...
> cd resumes
> bin
> put 134564.doc
> bye
>
> Normally the file would be on a server someplace, but I am
> thinking it would be cool if Oracle could expose a table,
> such as RESUMES, as an ftp service/directory. So when the
> 'put' is done the file is stored in RESUMES table in the
> database. Basically it would be a Oracle owned ftp service
> which allows you to use normal ftp commands from another
> server to interact directly with an Oracle table by adding,
> getting and removing files.
>
> I sure with a little code you could write something that
> basically does this but it would be neat if it was something
> your could just configure with a little DDL.
>
> Oh well, like I said, just a late night thought.
>
>
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