• cursors can be returned from PL/SQL blocks
  • example
• nice wrappers
  • stored procedures
    • DBIx::ProcedureCall::Oracle
    • RPC::Oracle
  • object-relational mappers
    • DBIx::Class
    • Data::ObjectDriver
  • Oracle::Sqlldr
  • Oracle::SQLLoader
  • Oracle::Debug
• DBMS_PIPE
  • orapipe.pl, a great standalone utility
  • some examples (see the section "Accessing OS commands from PL/SQL" on page 7)
  • examples