For anyone that is interested Tom Kyte responded to a few of my questions in the comments to this post. http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:597877500346143250 - Ethan On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Ethan Post <post.ethan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > - PLSQL (bottom of email) compiles fine in local and remote > database. > - I have PLSQL which is just like this but it does not use the > array. > > dbms_sql.parse@dblink(exec_cursor, p_sql, dbms_sql.native); > > That one works just fine. No errors. > - When I change the PLSQL to this...(below) I get the error. > > l_cursor := dbms_sql.open_cursor@dblink; > dbms_sql.parse@dblink(l_cursor, p_code, 1, p_code.count, false, > dbms_sql.native); > dbms_sql.close_cursor@dblink(l_cursor); > > > For some reason I can not see the overloaded version of parse over the > database link or some sort of implicit type conversion is taking place and > it does not recognize the procedure I am trying to call. Anyone seen this > before? Solutions? > > Thanks, > Ethan > > create or replace procedure parse_remote_array (p_code in > dbms_sql.varchar2a) is > l_cursor pls_integer; > i number; > begin > > l_cursor := dbms_sql.open_cursor; > dbms_sql.parse(l_cursor, p_code, 1, p_code.count, false, > dbms_sql.native); > dbms_sql.close_cursor(l_cursor); > > exception > when others then > raise; > end; > / >