Issue with calling procedure remotely

Hello,
Within the stored procedure, I am calling a procedure remotely but the '@v_remote_db' variable does not resolve:
begin
for i in cur_database_list loop
v_remote_db := i.database_name;
p_trunc_remote_table@v_remote_db; <<<------does not resolve
end loop;
end;
Would work if obsolute value:
p_trunc_remote_table@dev_db <------"works because dev_db is an actually database name and not a variable."
The database link is correctly defined and works.
Question: How to go around using obsolute value? I need to use a variable because the variable v__remote_db resolves to about 50 databases. Thank you.

Duplicate thread:
Re: issue with remote procedure calls
Amiel

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As for calling a web service from the database, using the database as the client in such a case. This is not a security risk. This is not unusual. In fact, it is very common in my experience. We have a lot of databases, ranging from SE to EE and several RAC clusters. All of them function as a client at some stage during processing. Some use a db link - and as a client fire off a SQL via that db link to a database server to obtain data. Some use ftp and act as a ftp clients, transferring processed data (XML format) to a server. Some call web services to extract data from 3rd party systems to reconcile the differences between local data sets and 3rd party data sets..
This is common between server and server. I do not see anything unusual in the database server using another server (and acting as a client when it does). Security between servers should not be a major problem (in fact, it can easily be done in a very robust way using trusted and encrypted communication).
The problem occurs when a client connects to the server and client and server roles are swapped at some stage (like the server "writing" a file directly to the client's filesystem). This very seldom makes any sense. And this is where authentication and security become an issue.

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