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Fri, Oct 2 2009 6:03 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates ![]() | Tim
Any chance of a command to execute a Windows (or I suppose Linux) command? Reason for the request is that I hold file links with companies and contacts and if they're zapped I want to delete the file as well. I've come up with a rather nifty solution which does have a loophole and it would be nicer to do the whole job in a script. Roy Lambert |
Fri, Oct 2 2009 11:53 AM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. ![]() | Roy,
<< Any chance of a command to execute a Windows (or I suppose Linux) command? Reason for the request is that I hold file links with companies and contacts and if they're zapped I want to delete the file as well. I've come up with a rather nifty solution which does have a loophole and it would be nicer to do the whole job in a script. >> You could easily do something like this with an external module, and it would be callable from any script. -- Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com |
Sat, Oct 3 2009 6:21 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates ![]() | Tim
>You could easily do something like this with an external module, With all the additional overheads. >and it >would be callable from any script. Wouldn't a built in version? Roy Lambert |
Sat, Oct 3 2009 11:24 AM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. ![]() | Roy,
<< With all the additional overheads. >> What overhead ? You can put all of the functions in one external module. << Wouldn't a built in version? >> Yes, but as you know, there's a limit to how much "built-in" functionality there can be. There is a reason why the external module functionality is there, and this is the exact purpose of it - calling native Win32 functionality that isn't present in SQL or part of the purpose of SQL. File I/O is not a function of SQL, apart from what we've already surfaced for the stores functionality, which is necessary for replication from scripts, etc. -- Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com |
Sat, Oct 3 2009 12:00 PM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates ![]() | Tim
>What overhead ? You can put all of the functions in one external module. There's an overhead to calling an external function. ><< Wouldn't a built in version? >> > >Yes, but as you know, there's a limit to how much "built-in" functionality >there can be. Fully agree, but "there's no harm in asking" >File >I/O is not a function of SQL, Being picky doesn't database access count as file I/O ![]() Roy Lambert |
Mon, Oct 5 2009 1:51 PM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. ![]() | Roy,
<< There's an overhead to calling an external function. >> Yes, but not much more than calling an SQL function. -- Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com |
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