CREATE/TRUNCATE in PL/SQL???

Hi!
I'm working on a data link between Visual Basic Client-programs through an Oracle (7.1) Data Base to a Unisys Mapper-system. This involves stored procedures in Oracle communicating with a C Batch program through DBMS_PIPE.
However, since I´m not a very experienced Oracle User I have some problems with the stored procedures.

1. I need to store data in an Oracle Table with the (new) name sent to the procedure as a parameter. But it seems I can't use neither CREATE nor TRUNCATE in PL/SQL. I can use them in SQLPlus but that doesn´t help me very much. What do I do?
2. How do use a table name in a variable in for example a SELECT. i.e. select * from mytable where mytable is the table with the name contained in the variable mytable??

Grateful for answers since at the moment I seem to be stucked.

Michael Stenfelt
Sweden Received on Sat Jun 22 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST