Automatic Procedure execution

Question

Hi All,
I have following two questions. Can anyone help us please?
1. Unlike Unix Cron job(which starts automatically at the specified time), is there any way I can have certain stored procedure executed automatically within Oracle server? Also if any failures in the execution(exceptions) I wold like to be notified by an email?
2. If i have a Oracle DB account as scott/tiger@TEST and has a stored procedure with the name TEST_PROC(i_date date), how can I have this procedure called within a UNIX cron entry so that it gets executed at the specified date and time?
Early reply...(as usual but it really will be highly appriciated since its somthing in production)..
cheers
sandeep

Answer 1

Hi Sandeep
Here is an example for sending email. Include this code in the exception handling part of your proc.
DECLARE
c utl_smtp.connection;
PROCEDURE header(name IN VARCHAR2, header IN VARCHAR2) AS
BEGIN
utl_smtp.write_data(c, name || ': ' || header || utl_tcp.CRLF);
END;
BEGIN
c := utl_smtp.open_connection('www.oracle.com');
utl_smtp.helo(c, 'us.oracle.com');
utl_smtp.mail(c, '[email protected]');
utl_smtp.rcpt(c, '[email protected]');
utl_smtp.open_data(c);
header('From', '"Diwakar Sharma" <[email protected]>');
header('To', '"Sandeep" <[email protected]>');
header('Subject', 'Hello');
utl_smtp.write_data(c, utl_tcp.crlf || 'Hello,' || utl_tcp.CRLF ||
utl_tcp.CRLF ||
'This is a test message.' || utl_tcp.CRLF || 'Diwakar');
utl_smtp.close_data(c);
utl_smtp.quit(c);
END;
Hope this helps
Diwakar