Calling a procedure from a package or another procedure

Question

Hi all,
I am trying to call a couple of procedures defined in a package using the 'call' method without any success.
i tried to create a third procedure and call the other two procedures from there, still without success. Can some one tell me the right method? also i've been trying to research a lot, but havent found any helpful documentation. where would i look for good help material on PL/SQL?
Purvi.

Answer 1

All Oracle's documentation is available online at http://tahiti.oracle.com. In particular, the PL/SQL User's Guide would probably be the most helpful to you.
"call" is something that is generally used on client applications (ODBC and JDBC based). It is not used when calling stored procedures in PL/SQL. If you have procedures proc1 and proc2, you can call them from a third stored procedure proc3 like this
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE proc1
AS
BEGIN
  dbms_output.put_line( 'proc1' );
END;
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE proc2
AS
BEGIN
  dbms_output.put_line( 'proc2' );
END;
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE proc3
AS
BEGIN
  proc1();
  proc2();
END;If both proc1 and proc2 were in a package called myPkg, and proc3 was a standalone procedure, you would need to modify it to reference the package name
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE proc3
AS
BEGIN
  myPkg.proc1();
  myPkg.proc2();
END;Justin
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