Comments on: How you can read an external directory list from SQL http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com/2008/06/05/how-you-can-read-an-external-directory-list-from-sql/ Michael McLaughlin's Technical Blog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:12:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: maclochlainn http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com/2008/06/05/how-you-can-read-an-external-directory-list-from-sql/comment-page-1/#comment-17 maclochlainn Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:13:19 +0000 http://maclochlainn.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-17 While Chet is correct, why should we create a table and perform I/O when it can be avoided. Global temporary tables came along in Oracle 8i. There's a good article at: http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/8i/TemporaryTables.php While Chet is correct, why should we create a table and perform I/O when it can be avoided. Global temporary tables came along in Oracle 8i. There’s a good article at:
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/8i/TemporaryTables.php

]]> By: chet http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com/2008/06/05/how-you-can-read-an-external-directory-list-from-sql/comment-page-1/#comment-18 chet Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:34:48 +0000 http://maclochlainn.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-18 How about just use a global temporary table with ON COMMIT DELETE (or whatever the syntax is)? I had to do something<a href="http://www.oraclenerd.com/2008/04/validating-process.html" rel="nofollow"> similar </a> awhile back... How about just use a global temporary table with ON COMMIT DELETE (or whatever the syntax is)?

I had to do something similar awhile back…

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