Setting items values programmatically

Hello, I'd like to set some items to some values
contained in the DB. The trick is that the item names
are also specified in the DB.
For example I could have a table with 2 columns:
item_name | item_value
VAR_A | XYZ
VAR_B | ABC
I'd like to set :VAR_A to 'XYZ' and :VAR_B to 'ABC'.
I tried DBMS_SQL, V() and NV() to no avail.
Thanks for your help.

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