Standalone workflow procedures

Anyone have an elegant solution to the following: We're converting SQL scripts used to populate a data warehouse into autonomous transaction PL/SQL subprocedures to be called by simple workflow procedures. Several of the scripts are required to drop and create tables, so we're coding the SQL within 'execute immediate' in PL/SQL. The problem is that the scripts are long and contain many embedded single quotes within functions, 'IN' statements, etc., so converting them to strings is a real pain. Unfortunately, we're using Standalone WF, not the embedded apps version, so concurrent events aren't available to us (I understand that they can be registered to run SQL scripts).
Does anyone have any other ideas or solutions for this situation?
Thanks in advance,
Matt Daniels
Bellsouth Telecommunications
205.977.1206
[email protected]

Another possibility could be to look at using Oracle Enterprise Manager to run SQL scripts in response to certain events/messages enqueued on AQ. You might want to look at the Oracle Warehouse Builder product, they use workflow and Oracle Enterprise Manager to coordinate the Extract/Translate/Load process.
Anyone have an elegant solution to the following: We're converting SQL scripts used to populate a data warehouse into autonomous transaction PL/SQL subprocedures to be called by simple workflow procedures. Several of the scripts are required to drop and create tables, so we're coding the SQL within 'execute immediate' in PL/SQL. The problem is that the scripts are long and contain many embedded single quotes within functions, 'IN' statements, etc., so converting them to strings is a real pain. Unfortunately, we're using Standalone WF, not the embedded apps version, so concurrent events aren't available to us (I understand that they can be registered to run SQL scripts).
Does anyone have any other ideas or solutions for this situation?
Thanks in advance,
Matt Daniels
Bellsouth Telecommunications
205.977.1206
[email protected]

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http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/portal.portal_db?selected=5&frame=#sql_and_pl_sql_languages
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