accessing multiple instances

Hi,
I need to access more that 1 instance, is there a way to start a new connection from a pl/sql script ?
eg.
inst1 has table I1
inst2 has table I2

I need to query I2 using columns from I1. It may sound unusual etc.etc.

I have stored the field-values its just one column from I1 and want to connect to I2.
I thought that the following would work, but it didnt

declare
begin
execute immediate 'conn abc/abc_at_inst2 '; end;
/

Want to run something like this

declare
curosr c is
select 1,2,3,4 from inst1.table1 where ---- ; c_rec is c%rowtype;

begin
for c_rec in c loop
-- get the c_rec.1 value and query inst2

select c1 into holder1 from inst2.table2 where (.....);

end loop;
end;
/

Thanks,
Naimy Received on Sun Jul 18 2004 - 14:48:14 CDT