Stefan, We have couple of 8i,9i and 10gR2 instances. useful updates have come and i would like to more about this. Could somebody provide be pratically applied scripts which are called from oracle database. thanks, Edwin.K Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Which database version ? Stefan On 3/30/07, edwin devadanam <edwin_kodamala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to call unix scripts from oracle database? Is it possible........or am i talking something alien..... regards, Edwin.K --------------------------------- The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. --------------------------------- Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta.