I am going to have an Oracle stored procedure that I am going to need to call from my application. When I call a stored procedure like this, does my application "Stop" and wait for the procedure to complete, which could potentially take hours? Or is there a way I can call and forget it. Basically it is updating data, and I want to tell it to go update that data and that's all I need to know. I don't need to worry about any errors beyond does the procedure exist.