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Accessing External Routines (IDS)

To refer to a routine on a database server other than the current database server, qualify the routine name with the database server name and database name (and the owner name if the remote database is ANSI compliant), as the following SELECT statement illustrates:

SELECT name, salesdb@boston:how_long() 
   FROM salesdb@boston:contacts
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