From: Peter Brawley
Date: June 4 2007 2:30pm
Subject: Re: External Program Execution
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Nasir,

>I am wondering if there is any way to execute external 
>application from MySQL procedures/trigger/event scheduler. 
>Like as we do in php with !,exec and system.

No, SQL isn't meant to be a complete computing language, and in any 
event such capability would be a huge security headache.

PB

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Nasir Iqbal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if there is any way to execute external application from
> MySQL procedures/trigger/event scheduler. Like as we do in php with !,
> exec and system.
>
> I want to know that if there is any way(simple SQL command, pacth) to do
> it. so I can execute external application like 
> ???('php -d myScriptName.php')
>
>
>