User's Manual
Virtuoso 4.5 Application and Integration Reviewers Guide  
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3.3 Exploiting Value Proposition 
3.3.1 Web Service Composition from SQL Stored Procedures 
3.3.1.1 Linking/Attaching External SQL Stored Procedures 
The following section includes steps for linking in external stored procedures from an 
ODBC Datasource. The steps in the example below uses a connected datasource called 
Demo_SQLSVR that maps to a Microsoft SQL Server database containing the Northwind 
schema. 
Step 1.  From the Conductor, navigate to the Database Tab, select the External 
Datasources sub-tab and then the Connected Data Sources tab Select the 
Link objects link under the Actions column as shown below in Figure 3 – 
External Procedures Management.  
Figure 3 – External Procedures Management 
Step 4.  As seen in Figure 4 - Selecting the External Stored Procedures below, 
when the page returns, a list is displayed of the available remote procedures. 
You can link any of the listed procedures into Virtuoso by selecting them 
from the list and pressing the Link Selected button. 










