Create an end-user routine

You can write end-user routines to accomplish the following tasks:

• Encapsulate multiple SQL statements
• Create triggered actions for multiple applications
• Restrict who can read data, change data, or create objects
• Create iterators

Routines also can accomplish tasks that address new technologies, including the following ones:

• Manipulate large objects
• Manage new data domains, such as images, web publishing, and spatial