Re: multi threading

A copy of this was sent to Shibu Stephenson <shibu.s_at_pacific.net.sg> (if that email address didn't require changing) On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:05:42 +0800, you wrote:

>How can we do Multi threading in PL/SQL?

you can't. plsql doesn't support threading.

you can 'spawn' disconnected jobs (sort of like having a shell script run something in the background on unix) using dbms_job but it doesn't emulate threading at all.

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