hi to all

I had to agree that the reason for this trigger doesn't make sense. It is because we have 2 system.

a) the first system can only generate data to a database

b) the second system can only read in text file or csv file

Both systems are 3rd party software that our company decide to use. So I end up were asked to write a trigger to call a program that a programmer wrote which did the following:

a) get the inserted record

b) write it to a text file

c) delete the record in the database

If i can do anything so that the insert record can be output to a text file, i will be very happy, because i don't think we need to delete the record. Once the record deleted from the database, we have no single trace. I would rather just export the record which only has 6 fields to a text file with delimiter using ","

The program that wrote work fine if it just execute on a cmd line. It will read all records and delete the record. But when i use it in trigger it just look like it did nothing. It take a while for the record to show up when i use : select * from xyz and there is no text file created.

I think either the user id (credential) don't allow it to create a text file and save it to a folder and/or like the post earlier said the insert is not committed yet and it cannot be delete?

I am in search of a trigger script that can trigger after insert and export the inserted record to a text file. It seems that it can be done but i am very new to trigger. Any sample will be greatly appreciated.

thx, Ted.