Summary
External procedures demonstrate the extensibility feature of an Oracle Database that allows a program developed in non-Oracle scripting language to be executed natively in the database kernel. The readers will find it interesting to explore how they can enable complex algorithms to run on the server side.
In the next chapter, we will be discussing a data security feature called Virtual Private Database. From a data access standpoint, this feature is quite important and easy to implement with bigger benefits.
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