Create folder In OS drive (Urgent)

Question

Hi all,
I want to create folder in local drive with sysdate by using sql or pl/sql .
I used "create or replace directory chin as 'c:\' ;" Directory is creating but it is not showing 'chin' in C Drive .
Can u please help on this .
Thanks in advance .
Edited by: udeffcv on Dec 14, 2009 10:31 PM

Answer 1

Hello,
if you use Oracle >= 9.x you can first create an OS command file which holds "md c:\foldername" from within Oracle using UTL_FILE - then you can execute that OS Commandfile with DBMS_SCHEDULER, e.g.
-- execute cmd file
DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB (job_name => vcJobName,
job_type => 'EXECUTABLE',
job_action => '"' || vcPath || vcCmdFile || '"',
auto_drop => TRUE);
DBMS_SCHEDULER.run_job(job_name => vcJobName); -- job is executed IN this session, i.e. PLSQL will wait until the call has finished.
We use this method for dynamically creating and calling OS scripts from within Oracle. We additionally create a log file in the OS script(s) which we read in after its execution.
Hope that helps,
Jürgen