Dbms_pipe

hi,
iam looking at logging event with trigger concept ,in that trigger use dbms_pipe to send the message , but i am confused where send has been send . please tell me for what purpose logging events and use of dbms_pipe.

797525 wrote:
iam just student when i going through the triggers concept i found event logging ,message has been send through the dbms_pipe ,let me write code.,I'm guessing this is a rather old book. It wouldn't make sense to use DBMS_PIPE for this sort of thing in any reasonably modern system.
but if i run this query
errrors shows that declare dbms_pipe error.Most likely, whatever user owns the trigger does not have access to the DBMS_PIPE package. The DBA would need to grant the user EXECUTE access on DBMS_PIPE for this code to compile.
and you ask me about log file on database or flat file i really don't know
if it is how to view in log file ,where it will be located if oracle 10g.Without some other process that is listening on the same port and unpacking the messages, this call to DBMS_PIPE won't be written anywhere. It would be lost at a minimum when Oracle shut down. You'd need to have something like an external application that knows to look for a pipe named INV_PIPE and to pull messages from that pipe. That external application would have to write the message somewhere that you could see it.
Justin

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