Scheduling an sql script using dbms_scheduler

Hi Experts,
I am having an oracle 10g database on windows platform. I have an sql script which has a normal set of sql statements (insertion and updation).
I would like to schedule to run this sql script using dbms_scheduler but I've gone through certain sites and came to know that it's not possible to schedule an sql script using dbms_scheduler. Please let me know how I can schedule this script using dbms_scheduler.

It is possible - in 10g and above you can use DBMS_SCHEDULER to call an external procedure, which in this case could be a call to your SQL file.
Get's a bit more complicated with older versions, but still doable.
But - unless there is a really good reason why you cannot do so, move this into a PL/SQL procedure as suggested.
Carl

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Edited by: John Lau on Aug 14, 2012 12:48 PM

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