you will have to use dynamic sql to do what you want to do. Raj ______________________________________________________ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc.
QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having an opinion is an art! -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 2:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Jeff, Thanks, this looks really close. One refinement though, I need to pass the target link name as a parameter. The name is already being passed, I just need the link syntax to interprit the variable before trying to use it. Any advice? create or replace procedure setup_replication_group_load (groupname IN VARCHAR2, nsite IN VARCHAR2) IS ... dbms_offline_og.begin_load@nsite(gname => groupname, new_site => nsite); ... END; /
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